I couldn't say the exact date I started single-parent homesteading since it has been a steady progression over the last seventeen years. I grew up…
I found myself fitting in well to my new way of life: being a woman, living alone in the middle of the wild African bush…
Have you ever wondered why, when so much of the homesteading lifestyle deals with the practices and philosophies of the past, no comprehensive history of…
“The days of wilderness adventure are not past! The pioneer spirit is not dead!” These stirring words were written by one of America’s best-known homestead…
Tammy Curry greeted me with fresh homemade bread, slathered with butter, and a glass of cool sweet tea. It was in the high nineties outside…
Carving out a homestead is a fantasy of many a young boy. Even now, when Saturday morning programming does not include anything like Davy…
Just when I thought that my one apron, Old Faithful was all I needed, I found a cute vintage garment I call Miss Priss,…
If you have a television, you’ve probably seen the PBS series, Simple Living, or at least heard of it. If you’re a fan of…
I didn’t plan for a home-based business when I expressed concern for natural-based baby-care products for my newborn; I was still trying to wrap…
“I had gone to bed one night, but could not sleep. My father was constantly in my mind. I seemed to feel that he…
In the early 1980s, I went to Sussex, England to study small-scale agriculture at a Rudolf Steiner center called Emerson College. The course trained…
I'd like to introduce you to an extraordinary life, that of the pleasant-looking young woman in the portrait above. On the one hand, I…
