Homesteader Life

Charlie was my dads neighbor and friend, when dad was a young man farming in new county. Charlie was one of a kind, a devout Roman Catholic, who smoked a pipe and enjoyed a glass of Wild Irish Rose whiskey at the end of the day. He had draft horses, a team of […]

We have been reading a delightful book at lunch time as a family. Scratching the Woodchuck: Nature on an Amish Farm is a collection of short essays about a life lived closely with creation. David Kline has the ability to take you right to the very place he is writing about. We […]

God tells us in His Word that he gave us wine to “make light the heart of man”. The brewing of wine is time honored tradition for homesteaders, and one that is pretty easy to do. I found this recipie in Charles Sander’s book The Self-Reliant Homestead. Though its called a “whiskey” […]

I have finished reading Remembering the Fish: The Seven Keys by Jerome Lange. I was very impressed with this book and highly recomend it. At first, I found myself wondering what a fella in Upstate NY would find of value in a book writen about gardening in Kentucky. After reading the […]

One of our readers in Washington state has run into some problems with the civil government over their chickens. They have set out on a counter attack, may the Lord grant them success. They have set up a blog for anyone interested, called Up to Our Wattles
This is the kind of stuff […]

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Thanks to everyone that ordered soap from us, it was a very sucessful sale. We sold out of all the 2nds and all of our regular ones! We have been trying to get them all sent out and get a lot of other stuff done the last few days. The weather […]

This time of year, while folks spend time thinking about what they are thankfull for, someone will always remark that we are “blessed with an abundance of cheap food”. Now I realize that having plenty to eat, in OT themes, is a sign of God’s blessing. I also realize that that food probably […]

We recently gained access to a beaver pond for trapping. Yesterday the boys and I went down to check it out. Beavers are such amazing creatures, we had a ball looking around. I showed the boys the dam and the house and all the little canals they make to haul in food […]

We American Christians find ourselves living under strange conditions. A country settled by Christians, yet so lacking in any visible proof. Our ansestors and and ourselves have committed a sickening crime. We have watered down the Gospel that transforms the world into the “gospel transformed by the world”. It seems that […]

Last night after supper I was holding our new child when John and Noah came over and sat down with us. The boys took it apon themselves to “teach stuff” to their new brother. It was such a blessing to watch. It took quite a while for them to explain all they have […]