So, we get a great number of comments on our Youtube videos and I try to respond to each one of them (even the one where the guy called me a hipster poser) in a timely and professional manner. Well, one comment that came through this week really got me thinking. The comment involved the [...]
As a homesteader, we have this romantic notion of sustaining ourselves completely from our homestead. We see a future where we don't need to purchase food and other items in order to maintain the freedom we want at home. While that is a noble dream, it is almost unreachable for most of us. Many of [...]
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There is a trend I have seen building in my state. No, it isn't associated with pop culture, fashion, or entertainment (quite frankly, I don't think I could spot a trend in those areas), it is a trend to find rural land. Several of my friends have stopped me at various random encounters and [...]
If I have said it once, I probably have said it 100 times - I love this time of year. There is something about the changing temperatures with cool evenings and brisk mornings. Our southern mountain that faces the house is covered in a variety of hardwoods. In mid-October, the trees slowly begin to [...]
So, if you find yourself leisurely strolling through the woods in early fall, listen carefully to the cacophony (that is a $5 word for a bunch - took me three tries to spell it correctly) of sounds as the forest prepares for a winter slumber and the various woodland creatures scramble to stockpile food either [...]
