Rethinking The Weeds
By Mary Ann Lieser
My father tended a beautiful garden most summers of his life. Each late winter he started tomato plants from seed indoors...
Confessions Of A Desert Rat — Life In The Boonies On $30 A Week
By Joel Simon
I’m what some people call a Cedar Rat. I live alone with a couple of dogs in the Southwest high desert on...
Low-cost living: Frugality as a way of life
By Patrice Lewis
Back in 1990, as newlyweds, my husband and I were normal. We lived in a rental house in Sacramento. We had two...
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...
