Women

Right On, Sister! The Feminization of Farming in North America

There has always been a female face to agriculture: the tough homesteader pioneer woman on the frontier; the milkmaid; the…

4 months ago

The Tygart Valley Homesteads: Pioneers of the Great Depression

"Two days after Thanksgiving, hospitable Anna Eleanor Roosevelt…motored in a White House car from Washington to visit the Tygart Valley…

4 months ago

Ruth Stout: The No-Dig Duchess

In the early 1980s, I went to Sussex, England to study small-scale agriculture at a Rudolf Steiner center called Emerson…

4 months ago

Homesteaders from Across the Waves: Immigrant Homesteaders

While the question of immigration is on the boil in America, and while the current season is one that should…

5 months ago

Music Carriers of the Southern Appalachians: Sharing History Through Song

If you’ve ever traveled through the southern Appalachian Mountains, you will immediately understand, even from the window of your car,…

5 months ago

Homesteader’s Guide to Emergency Childbirth

I’d like to talk to you about how to handle an emergency childbirth. Of a human. You might be thinking,…

7 months ago

Grandma Moses: A Primitive Freshness

She was an octogenarian, an artist, a naturalist, a visionary, a farm wife, and a mother of ten children. She…

8 months ago

Basement Bunnies and Grow-box Gardening: The Challenges of Urban Homesteading

Tammy Curry greeted me with fresh homemade bread, slathered with butter, and a glass of cool sweet tea.  It was…

1 year ago

Container Gardening in the City: Urban Homesteading on a Budget

One man's trash is another's treasure, or in my case, his trash is my container garden. Container gardening in the…

1 year ago

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 Fish and Wildlife Biology. Now, understand that my…

1 year ago

Covered Wagons Heading West: Life on the Oregon Trail

Amelia Stewart Knight knew the cross-country journey west would be a rough one; it was not for the weak or…

1 year ago

Homesteading Failures – If at First You Don’t Succeed, Don’t Worry, No One Else Does Either.

Anyone who claims to succeed without some measure of homesteading failure first is either not trying very hard, or lying…

1 year ago