Tips For The New Gardener
By Tom Kovach
Residents of the Great Plains, it is said, had an imagination as fertile as their soil. In trying to get settlers to...
Are There Holes In Your Preparedness Plan?
By Jackie Clay-Atkinson
Providing for your family is a basic self-reliance tenet. I don’t look at myself as a “prepper” (a word referring to folks...
A Few Tips For Cutting Firewood
Chuck Klein
There are only two economical, exciting, expeditious, and fun methods of cutting firewood: one is with a chainsaw, the other is … we’ll...
The circle of homesteading
By Patrice Lewis
It all started one day about 20 years ago when I was cleaning the barn.
My task involved shoveling manure into a compost...


































