If you live in the woods, then you absolutely, positively gotta have chains. I don’t mean the sort of chain you wear around your…
Back in the Bad Old Days, when I was a practicing real estate broker, I used to drive around the country every day showing…
Alright, enough is enough! I've got to get something off my chest that's really been testing my patience for the last thirty or forty…
How to Fight the High Cost of Groceries This Summer, Starting Right Now with Container Gardening. Well, I guess it’s finally happening: mainstream America is…
Excerpted from Neil's latest book LandBook - An owner's manual for rural land (second edition) ~~~~~~~~ I’ll bet that, if you’re old enough to read,…
Excerpted from Neil's latest book LandBook - An owner's manual for rural land (second edition) ~~~~~~~~ Some people swear by meditation; others tout the virtues…
I don’t suppose anyone likes to consider themselves average, but I am NOT the average tourist. Sure, I love to travel and enjoy the…
Have you ever wondered why, when so much of the homesteading lifestyle deals with the practices and philosophies of the past, no comprehensive history…
It’s hard to turn on the tube or pick up a paper without hearing or reading about what a dangerous place the world is…
I don’t know about you and the folks at your house, but I used to be pretty stupid. When I was single, I ate…
One of biggest the reasons I enjoy living out in the woods is the wildlife. Not that wild life. That life gets decidedly less…
Lately, I’ve had the satisfaction of launching into a new project that I’ve been planning for quite some time, and dreaming about for longer…
Charles A. Sanders has made a career as a Conservation Officer with the Indiana State Dept. of Conservation. He is also a homesteader. It almost…
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…
This morning, I was thinking about when I was a kid, about the farm across the river from ours, and about the folks who…
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…
