The adze is among the very oldest of stone-age tools. It was invented about the first time someone tied a rock to a stick, which…
Sometimes we Americans can have some pretty lame attitudes toward food. We insist that tomatoes are a fruit, but nobody ever puts one in a…
"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating." ~ Oscar Wilde ~~~~~~~~ So you’re out of work; maybe you have been…
The illustration above is from a 1949 Studebaker advertisement... that Never-never Land where everyone drove a Studebaker. ~~~~~~~~ I grew up on a cattle ranch…
Lately, I've been watching some of the goings-on as a handful of people have been setting themselves up to live in the country, many…
One of my favorite cartoons shows a politician giving a speech at one of those thousand-dollar-a-plate dinners. He's saying, "...And during my administration, we've…
What is the Future of Homesteading? I have to make the confession that I have always been a sucker for a good advice column. …
If you're shopping for a used tractor, if you've never owned a tractor before, and if you're reading the pages of Homestead.org, then I'm…
You know, it's getting where music really ticks me off. Okay, I know what you're thinking already. It's practically blasphemy to speak ill of…
Excerpted from Neil's latest book LandBook - An owner's manual for rural land (second edition) ~~~~~~~~ If you’ve ever borrowed money then you've had occasion…
I guess that, like most people, I enjoy patting myself on the back every now and then, or maybe more often than that. Also…
In 2007, Americans spent five times as much on prescription drugs as they did just six years earlier. In 2002, Consumer Reports found that 65…
