I cringed when I read how the Wannabe Homesteader described us in a recent guest post: I know of some homesteaders, I mean real homesteaders, who live a life completely off-grid and utterly detached from industrialized society. They live a simple, Christian existence surrounded by like-minded people and are dependent on no one except the…
Last year the “pallet garden” was the first larger area we fenced off from chickens, cows, and rabbits and began cultivating. Around that same time Stewart built the first short-term chicken coop to house the three chickens a neighbor gave us to get started. That chicken coop was recently torn down, with some of the…
It’s 85 degrees at 10 in the morning and the door is flung wide open to catch the breeze. Right behind that white wooden door I’m at the sink washing dishes. A soap-drenched rag goes round and round the plates which then go into a sink full of rinse water. I hear birds chirping, a…
Most of the time things in this life we’re living are easy. Sure there’s long hours, plenty of physical labor, and huge, long lists of things that need to be done yesterday. But things are mostly easy in the way work becomes life and coworkers become children and spouses and friends and your heart bursts…
