Do you remember the childhood game, “Mother May I?” There would be one child who would be the “mother” and then the other children would line up opposing him or her. Then one by one they would ask the “mother” if they can take a certain number of steps forward in order to reach
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“The individual has three rights, equally sacred from arbitrary interference [from government]: the right to his life, the right to his liberty, the right to his property. These three rights are so bound together as to be essentially one right. To give a man his life, but to deny him his liberty, is to take
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COMING SOON… It’s the Mother Earth News Homesteading Summit. Sign up to watch for FREE at: https://wdf87122.isrefer.com/go/menhs/harrensc/ 35+ expert presentations, over 7 days! It’s 100% online… there’s no travel… … Covering topics that include modern homesteading, growing your own food, raising healthy livestock, sustainable off-grid living, and so much more. The summit kicks off Monday,
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I have a confession to make. I’m addicted to cheese (there must be a group for this, like Cheese Lover’s Anonymous). Seriously, I could easily eat a whole block. So it’s nice when I learned how to make my own using fresh, raw goats milk from our own animals (Somehow there is much less guilt
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It’s never a dull moment on the homestead, and when you wake up to blood in your chick’s poop, that will really get your gears going. Thank goodness for the internet where you can research your way to a diagnosis for your animals, or, if you’re not careful, a hypochondriac animal owner. Two days ago
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Things quickly got real on The Chosen Weeds Farm this weekend. I debated whether to make a post of this or not, but when I started this website one of the themes I decided to try to convey would be honesty and authenticity; and that includes being honest about the mistakes we make even if
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We have had some ups and downs with our garden this year. The spring harvest was fantastic and was an improvement from last year (year to year improvements are always good). Then the rains came…. lots of it. And then the bugs came…..lots of those too. After that was a hot, dry spell which is
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I grew up on a small homestead in Indiana. We grew our own food and my mom taught us how to can and preserve. I was in 4-H for ten years, and I spent 20 plus years working with horses. I remember a lot of the lessons I learned growing up this way, and I’m
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[This post contain affiliate links] I love homesteading, I really do. It is my dream to do this full time eventually. I love gardening and working with animals. I love experimenting with what works in our homestead and sharing that with my readers and friends. But there are some things that I have come to
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