Homesteader Life

I fractured a rib about a week ago and I am in a lot of pain. The work is always here, whether you feel up to it or not. I’m getting it done but haven’t felt much like typing on the old ‘puter in the evenings. I’ll be back soon with some […]

Preserving Food Without Freezing or Canning is another new book I’ve been reading. Its has about 250 recipes by the gardeners and farmers of Terra Vivante. I look forward to trying some of these ideas out this year. A very good book.

As most of you know, the boys have had me read Farmer Boy again. They loved it the second time more than the first. I have a feeling we will be reading it again. The Wilder Homestead was in Upstate NY. Now what I didn’t know was that it had […]

I’ve been reading Flee To The Fields, The Founding Papers of the Catholic Land Movement. It is a very good read. Unless your a full blown “rome-a-phobe” I think you’d really enjoy the book. One thing that hit me was that there truely is “nothing new under the sun”. Much of […]

Heres a new article by Allan Carlson

Wendell Berry uses the term Total Economy to discribe our nations current worldveiw, and I agree with him. The “economy”, “freemarket” or “global freemarket” are the gods of this culture. Everything we do or don’t do as a nation is done with regards to how it will effect the economy. This religon […]

The brakes went out on the car and we were not able to make it to our church today. There is a little independent baptist church a couple of miles down the road from our place. It just happens to be the church that I was baptised in, married in and my wife grew […]

I have been thinking about this post by Kelly over at Post Tenebras Lux for a while. I have been wanting to write about our relationships with animals and God’s relationships with them. I still don’t have anything that I feel comfortable with yet, so you’ll have to wait a little longer. […]

You have to see THIS. I just love the Bartlett family and wish I lived near them.

Well, its been slow coming but spring is here. The rains have kept us out of the garden until this week. We got some spinach, beets, onions and peas in. We need to get more of all those in soon, but it is a start.
I’ve been in deep thought the […]