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…
“Two days after Thanksgiving, hospitable Anna Eleanor Roosevelt…motored in a White House car from Washington to visit the Tygart Valley homestead project near Elkins, W.…
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…
If you’ve ever traveled through the southern Appalachian Mountains, you will immediately understand, even from the window of your car, that it would have been…
I’d like to talk to you about how to handle an emergency childbirth. Of a human. You might be thinking, “Eh, not for me… On…
She was an octogenarian, an artist, a naturalist, a visionary, a farm wife, and a mother of ten children. She has been immortalized on china…
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…
One man’s trash is another’s treasure, or in my case, his trash is my container garden. Container gardening in the city is how I began…
I decided when going back to college that I would major in Fish and Wildlife Biology. Now, understand that my previous endeavors had all been…
Amelia Stewart Knight knew the cross-country journey west would be a rough one; it was not for the weak or timid. The trip to Oregon…
Anyone who claims to succeed without some measure of homesteading failure first is either not trying very hard, or lying about it. Farming, gardening, homesteading,…