Clearly, it was not the best day in Daniel Freeman's life. He'd been on the trail for over three weeks, and the weather had…
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,…
Sometimes we Americans can have some pretty lame attitudes toward food. We insist that tomatoes are a fruit, but nobody ever puts…
It’s a common occurrence this time of year. You’re walking through the woods enjoying the cool dry air as the autumn colors are just…
They came from the city. They were prepared. They were prepared for the complete collapse of world civilization, and with it, the demise of…
"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating." ~ Oscar Wilde ~~~~~~~~ So you’re out of work; maybe you have…
Here at Exclamation Pointe, autumn is a tranquil time when the subtle shift in the winds and the gradual drop in the temperatures, foretell…
I've been pretty busy lately doing whatever it is that I do. Besides all that, I've personally spent the week preparing for the Olympics.…
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 tractor, if you've never owned a tractor before, and if you're reading the pages of Homestead.org, then I'm going…
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…
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…
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…
Excerpted from Neil's latest book LandBook - An owner's manual for rural land (second edition) ~~~~~~~~ There is no other single aspect of land ownership…
There was a tradesman here the other day to correct certain abnormalities in our septic apparatus. He was complimenting me on the beautiful woods…
The other day I was driving along one of those little two-lane black-tops that snake through the Ozarks. I take these routes whenever I…
