"There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made… I had the feeling that the…
No one knows, or will ever fully understand, why Caroline Henderson, nee Boa, daughter of a prosperous Iowa farmer, graduate of Mount Holyoke College in…
It was 10:30 A.M. I was getting the reports ready for the upcoming management team meeting, running through the last of the quarterly newsletter details…
March is Women’s History Month, and it seemed fitting to me that a homesteading woman should be celebrated. The woman I chose was arguably at…
I'd like to introduce you to an extraordinary life, that of the pleasant-looking young woman in the portrait above Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, or Bamewawagezhikaquay. On…
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 the…
Women bootleggers put men to shame in the days of Prohibition. Women moonshine smugglers were not unheard of; in fact, there may have been more…
"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…
“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…
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…
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 people…
While the question of immigration is on the boil in America, and while the current season is one that should invoke charity, not disparity, I…