Homesteader Life

Our good friend Herrick Kimball has Just Announced the release of a new book titled Writings of a Deliberate Agrarian. Best order your copy soon!

I got a phone call while I was milking this morning from Leah. She was calling from a hospital in Maryland. Little Noah came down with something called croup–??—, I’ve never heard of it and can’t spell words I know very well much less new ones. Anyway the poor feller was having […]

Please keep “Puritan Mamma” in your prayers.

Boy, things are kind of quite around here this morning. My wife and the boys left at 5 am to go visit kinfolk down in Maryland(you didn’t think they LEFT ME like that, did ya). They will be gone untill friday. They got a chance to ride down with Leah’s mom, so […]

On Monday the rep from Organic Valley came to the farm. The meeting went very well and it looks like we are planning to start the transition process by June 1st. I was kind of suprised that my Dad agreed to it, but thrilled never the less. Our land has not had […]

Few news stories have been full of more nonsence and alarmist insanity than the recent Bird Flu stories. Fear is a mighty fine tool for those who want total control. We have seen the goverment, the multinational “big chicken” factories, the drug companies and the money changers all scrambling to make the most of it. […]

If you’ve been a Christian Agrarian for very long, you know that much of what you say about “any old thing” tends to earn you puzzled looks from other folks. American Christians ain’t much for rocking the boat. Many people would be fine letting us live like “darn fools” and leave us alone, if it […]