Homesteader Life

The evening milking is done. I’m pooped, though I didn’t seem to get very much done today. It rained all day so the cows got a nice bath. Should have moved some calves to the other barn today but I didn’t. We had a nice calf sired by “Deluxe” born the […]

“To cause the land-using economies to overproduce is even simpler. The farmers and other workers in the world’s land-using economies, by and large, are not organized. They are therefore unable to control production in order to secure just prices. Individual producers must go individually to the market and take for their produce simply whatever they […]

John and Noah are now the proud owners of some baby chicks. Grandma came back from Tractor Supply with a box of chicks for the boys. Now I have more animals in the house than people. We will be mail ordering chicks sometime soon, but the boys need to have some that are “just theirs”. […]

Sheep
The bible is full of agricultural word/pictures. Since we as a people have been, for the most part, far removed from are agrarian roots we sometimes miss the point. I remember one time in Sabbath school we were talking about the word meditate. Which in Hebrew was the same as ruminate. We who own cattle […]

Christian Homesteading is a term I have long used for those believers that have been part of the “back to the land” crowd. They have been around for a long time, but sadly they have often been failures. The main reason I think Christian Homesteading has never really taken off is that its advocates have […]

OK folks I can’t spend to much time on this contraption, so you’ll be getting it in small bits. Before one ever chooses to live the simple homesteader, small farmer type life you need to be sure you really want to do it. You must enjoy it or you will be miserable. Enjoying the work […]

Well folks, it rained all night. Its still raining now. We are are thankful for the Lord’s blessings. Now perhaps the grass will grow a bit. I got up late this morning so my day will be a bit hurried. Didn’t hear the 2:30 alarm and woke up at 4:20. […]

“One of the most troubling characteristics of the specialist mentality is its use of money as a kind of proxy, its willingness to transmute the powers and functions of life into money. “Time is money” is one of the axioms and the source of many evils-among them the waste of both time and money.”
Wendell Berry
As […]

Its no secret that I really like Joel Salatin. This summer he invites everyone out to his place!
Here is the invite…….
Dear folks,
How about getting together for a day of food, fun and fellowship away from hotels and conference centers, out on the land where tomorrow’s farm is already happening?We’re willing to clean up the […]

One of my favorite books is The Unsettling of America by Wendell Berry. The Unsettling of America argues that today’s agribusiness takes farming out of its cultural context, and is destructive to the lives of farmers and to our culture as a whole. Mr. Berry takes on the specialists and asks alot of good questions […]