Create a Future-Proof Homestead: Planning for Climate and Cultural Changes

Tooting My Own Horn (Briefly). At the beginning of 2020, I predicted (and gave concrete plans on how to mitigate) the current gas and energy price rise.  In early March of 2020, I predicted that about one million Americans would die from COVID-19 (and gave concrete plans on what to do).  I also predicted that cities would be shut down…

Anthony Okrongly Anthony Okrongly

From Beets to Beef: A Vegetarian’s Journey to Raising Beef Cattle

At the young and impressionable age of twenty, I read the book Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer from cover to cover.  The book provides a detailed discussion and account of what it means to eat meat in the age of industrialized agriculture, but at the time, the main points that I took from it were graphic descriptions of the…

Kelsi Cunniff Kelsi Cunniff

Ornamental Grasses and Ground Covers

All in the Family Although this article is about ornamental grasses and ground cover, I wanted to begin by listing the various types of grasses there are to show the seeming ubiquity of this plant. That was before I learned grasses belong to a family of flowering plants known as Poaceae (po-A-see-ay). An extended family with some 12,000 species categorized…

Alan Ray Alan Ray
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The Turkey-manure Manifesto

Lately, I’ve had the satisfaction of launching into a new project that…

Neil Shelton Neil Shelton

From Beets to Beef: A Vegetarian’s Journey to Raising Beef Cattle

At the young and impressionable age of twenty, I read the book…

Kelsi Cunniff Kelsi Cunniff

Strategies for Sustainability: How to Keep Mother Earth from Becoming Smother Earth

We can kick her, stick her, fog her, and smog her, but…

Barbara Bamberger-Scott Barbara Bamberger-Scott

Soup’s On!

Soup.  Ahhh, warming, comforting, nourishing, left-over using soup.  Not a week goes…

Laurie Holcomb Laurie Holcomb

The Complete Sissy-boy’s Guide to Pickup Trucks

The illustration above is from a 1949 Studebaker advertisement... that Never Never…

Neil Shelton Neil Shelton

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver

Sometimes, a book is so perfect it defies definition. I was given…

Sheri Dixon Sheri Dixon

Black Bean and Corn Salad

It's often quite true—particularly with food—that simpler is better and this recipe…

Jessica Shelton Jessica Shelton

Lemon Herb Roasted Hasselback Potatoes

Who doesn't love roasted potatoes?  Crisp on the outside and creamy on…

Jessica Shelton Jessica Shelton

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Urban Foraging

When I had to pack up my rural homestead and move it…

Jenny Flores Jenny Flores

Stop! Don’t Feed That Pigweed to the Pigs!

I had to go to Africa to discover pigweed.  But, once smitten,…

Barbara Bamberger-Scott Barbara Bamberger-Scott

Making Cheese at Home is Fun! Making Fromage Blanc

As I ponder my kitchen, which is a total wreck, I see…

Allena Jackson Allena Jackson