Jackie’s June Homesteading Seminar

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We're planning our spring homesteading seminar and are ready to take deposits.This seminar should be a great one, covering such topics as basic homestead building skills, using carpentry tools and chainsaws safely, getting more...

Even though it was small, our seminar was a great success

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This fall we only had one person attend our canning/homesteading seminar. But I'm sure Erin had fun and learned a lot. And being the only person, she got our undivided personal attention. We canned...

It was sixty degrees and sunny for Easter

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All we could think was … FINALLY! My sons, Bill (and his family) and David, were here for Easter dinner and we all ate too much. Then we sat out on our new front...

Amid our spring planting, a horrible fire destroys apartment building where David’s girlfriend lives

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We were busy erecting and planting our hoop houses, complaining how late we were getting that done this year due to my knee surgery and the goofy spring (a foot of snow on the...

Q and A: tomato sprouting and homesteader savings

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Tomato sprouting I was wondering if you ever saw a tomato that had a plant of some kind growing out of the fruit itself. I've had two of them from the garden now and am...