Spring Starts in February




I am watching – baby on my hip and jaw on the floor- as a house takes form. It wasn’t so long ago, you see, that such a thing was unfathomable to me. They say you shouldn’t live in your house while it’s being built. They say you need so many square feet per person….
I remember last year I nearly started a blog series titled “Grow More Food in 2018”. It was something I really wanted to work towards, and we did make a go of it, bringing pigs online and working a great deal at the garden, but the Lord had other plans for those many plantings last…
Every once and awhile I run across an off-grid tool that promises a lot and actually delivers. These gems are few and far between since most products today oversell and underwhelm. So it is with some excitement that I finally get around to writing about the best off-grid flashlight I’ve ever used. The flashlight…
Hello, middle-of-August, where did you come from? I know you’re upon us because it’s pretty hot. But I’m confused because nobody seems to be dying of the summer flu (yet), and we’re actually planning ahead for the fall garden (for the first time). So maybe, middle-of-August, we’ll bid you adieu without too many tears this…
We are blessed to live in a community where other folks are attempting to grow their own food and live off-grid. It is a blessing in countless ways, one of them being that we are able to walk to our food sources. I like to call it agrarian grocery shopping. So, like any other grocery…
October marked five years that we have inhabited this land, working towards creating a sustainable off-grid homestead on the five acres put into our care. As is often the case, this series is me stumbling through the agrarian process, finding my way through the dirt, in words. I had tried, for weeks and months now, to write about…
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