The bush-hogging is done. The perimeter fence will go up next week, after I cash in a CD. I’m rigging up a Quonset-hut shelter out…
I reflected it was an odd way to spend a morning. Crammed in a bulldozer cab, my bottom perched on a side molding of the…
This is the second submission by single-mom and homesteader, Mariann Foster. Click here to read her very popular first article, "Making a Life, Not a Living:…
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: The writer of the following letters is a young woman, Elinore, who lost her husband in a railroad accident and went to Denver…
I couldn't say the exact date I started single-parent homesteading since it has been a steady progression over the last seventeen years. I grew up…
It is exciting to consider the possibilities of taking your successful hobby farm to the next level, but there are quite a few factors to…
I love the idea of living on a homestead. When my husband and I were looking to purchase our first home, it didn't even occur…
Carving out a homestead is a fantasy of many a young boy. Even now, when Saturday morning programming does not include anything like Davy Crockett…
Just when I thought that my one apron, Old Faithful was all I needed, I found a cute vintage garment I call Miss Priss, the…
So as I went on and on about how excited I am that I'm making continuous production yogurt (one of the tastier hobbies I’ve ever…
I walked off the plane in March expecting to get smacked in the face with heat and dust. “115 degrees,” they told me, “and the…
I always felt different than my sisters. We were all born in a big city, yet I did not embrace city life as they did. …