Many of us got interested in homesteading as a way to escape the rat race only to discover—surprise, surprise!—you still need money on a homestead.…
There has always been a female face to agriculture: the tough homesteader pioneer woman on the frontier; the milkmaid; the tender of the flocks; the…
To many homesteaders and would-be homesteaders, “money” is a four-letter word. After all, money is all about materialism, and that's the antithesis of homesteading, right?…
My engineer friend in Dallas said, “This is the third year my health insurance has gone up. It's now over $550 per month just for…
Returning to the land is a desire that has coursed through the hearts of certain people as long as there have been cities to escape…
Something major changed at the end of 2019. You didn’t notice it. Nobody did, really. What changed? That change has led me to believe that…
“There's no way this car will make it the rest of the way home in the dark. The alternator belt is gone,” I said. My…
"For I, methinks, till I grow old, As fair before me shall behold, As I do now, the Cabin small, The Lake, the Bay, the…
"Buying Land at a Tax Auction: Not So Fast..." is excerpted from Neil's latest book LandBook - An owner's manual for rural land (second edition)…
In the 1970’s, my father decided to retire at age 62, the minimum age to draw Social Security. He quit his very small business and…
It got me thinking after I had been to one of the “Retire Wealthy” meetings, and had listened to speaker after speaker telling us we…
Like a lot of people who approach middle age, I started to wish for a simpler life based on the quiet of the country. So…
