Homesteading

Willa Cather: My Ántonia and the Settlement of the Great Plains

"There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made… I…

2 months ago

Homesteading with Dogs: Get By with a Little Help from Your Friends

If I had to give ato our Akbash/Great Pyrenees dogs or put them in one category, well, I…

2 months ago

Learn to Earn: Ten Books Every Homesteader Should Read

The rise in popularity of the homesteading lifestyle is a good thing but it has caused the market to become…

2 months ago

Your Medicinal Garden: Ten Herbs to Plant This Spring

Come spring, the nursery catalogs will be arriving in the mail.  All of us are entertaining grandiose gardening plans.  This…

2 months ago

The Three Sisters Legacy: The Science Behind Companion Planting

There’s nothing quite as frustrating as having some know-it-all tell you why your cucumbers aren’t getting bigger than pickles, or…

2 months ago

Waste Not, Want Not: Repurposing on the Homestead

Growing up in the rural Midwest, and being a child not unlike millions of others with a more selective than…

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Blizzards: Furies of Nature

Today, the Great Plains is an area of great resources and beauty. Nevertheless, during past days and even current times,…

2 months ago

Slow-cooker Pork Carnitas with Fresh Tomatillo Salsa

Wow, this was so much easier than I expected.  I love pork carnitas, but always assumed it was something too…

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A Woman in No Man’s Land: Caroline Henderson, Homesteader

No one knows, or will ever fully understand, why Caroline Henderson, nee Boa, daughter of a prosperous Iowa farmer, graduate…

2 months ago

Drop Out and Stay Out! Leaving Corporate America for Good

It was 10:30 A.M.  I was getting the reports ready for the upcoming management team meeting, running through the last…

2 months ago

Matilda Jackson: Making a Home on the Last Frontier

Sometimes the best plans go awry, and for intrepid female Matilda Glover Koontz Jackson, first aspirations of pioneering could easily…

2 months ago

Bats & Guano: Gifts From the Garden Gods

Say the words feces, scat, feculence, crap, caca, and a shovel-full of other euphemisms and you would be describing pretty…

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