Keeping Skunks at Bay
Anyone old enough to remember the classic Looney Tunes cartoons is familiar…
Food Forever: Creating a Perennial Food Forest
Growing our own produce is an important part of the homesteading lifestyle.…
Bats & Guano: Gifts From the Garden Gods
Say the words feces, scat, feculence, crap, caca, and a shovel-full of…
Going Bats! The Benefits of Bat Houses on Your Homestead
Do you want to know how amazing bats are? I imagine some…
The Whippoorwill
Perhaps not surprisingly, some of the strangest things Out There are things…
Growing a Butterfly Garden: Host Plants to Attract Butterflies
Whether you just want to have lovely, colorful things flitting around in…
In Favor of a Naturalized Lawn
Early every spring as I drive into town I notice that people…
Attracting Beneficials: Garden Good Guys
Whether you are a backyard gardener, an urban homesteader, or you run…
Adventures of Becoming a Backwoods Girl: Bugs, Guns, Dogs, and Fire, Oh My…
I decided when going back to college that I would major in…
Becoming a Certified Wildlife Habitat
There's never a bad time to think about conservation and helping out…
Homestead Besieged!
Modern homesteading is difficult. Rabbits love tender garden sprouts; every wild thing…
Relief for Poison Ivy, Poison Oak, and Poison Sumac: The Poisonous Triplets
"Oh My Heavens! It's in My Bellybutton!" Taming the Poisonous Triplets The…
