The Deliberate Agrarian

One Man's Ruminations About Faith, Family, and Livin' The Good Life

Deliberate Agrarian Archives: Community

Deliberate Agrarian Archives: Essays About Community

Thinking About Community in a Cook Book
New Hope Mills
Planting Potatoes With a Little Girl
Digging Potatoes With A Little Girl
Defending The Amish
Defending The Amish, Part 2
Fusco’s Law, The Amish & Upstate New York in 2050
Followup on the Locke Amish
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This blog is all about Faith, Family & Livin' The Good Life. If you explore the extensive archives (categories are listed below) you will discover a rich resource of down-to-earth inspiration & how-to information.

Click The Fermenting Cider Vinegar To Read My Newest Blog Essay

Click The Fermenting Cider Vinegar To Read My Newest Blog Essay
This month's topics include: Graduating Basic Training, My NY Times Article, Yeoman Furniture Part 3, A Different Kind of Bible Story, Making Cider Vinegar, My First Vegetable Clamp, The Humbling of America, Swedes, and Old Farm Almanac Excerpts For November

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Links to my other blogs...

  • Diary of an 1892 Farmer's Wife
  • FREE Planet Whizbang Wheel Hoe Plans
  • How To Butcher A Chicken
  • Old Farm Almanacs
  • The Whizbang Garden Cart
  • Whizbang Books Online
  • Whizbang Cider Press Plans

Agrarian Books I've Written

  • Writings of a Deliberate Agrarian
  • The Whizbang Plucker Plan Book
  • The Whizbang Garden Cart Plan Book
  • The Whizbang Chicken Scalder Plan Book
  • The Complete Guide to Making Great Garlic Powder
  • A Garlic Powder Profits Report

Twelve Years Old Today

Twelve Years Old Today
He's actually 14 now, but my prayer is the same

Another Summer Evening's Meal

Another Summer Evening\
This is the kind of food we dream about in the depths of winter.
(click on the picture)

Yeoman Furniture & My New Wood Box

Yeoman Furniture & My New Wood Box
Yeomen don't buy furniture.
They make their own. (click the picture)

Yeoman Furniture
(Part 2)

Yeoman Furniture<br> (Part 2)
Waste Not, Want Not (click the picture for the story)

We Make Apple Cider

We Make Apple Cider
You can too
(click on the picture to learn how)

Scott Nearing's "Horse Chow"

Scott Nearing\
A Four Part Series
(click on any of the raisins in the bowl)

Planting Potatoes With A Little Girl

Planting Potatoes With A Little Girl
"I must admit that four year old girls were once something like aliens to me." (click the pic)

Shooting Dad's Handgun

Shooting Dad\
"I think it is important that boys learn gun safety and shooting skills when they are young. This could even be considered among the most important of agrarian skills."

This is William Kimball
(Him An Me Is Kin)

This is William Kimball<br>(Him An Me Is Kin)
Click on the picture for William's Story

Homegrown Poultry

Homegrown Poultry
Click on the picture and I'll show you how to butcher a chicken

I Invented Granola Bars....

I Invented Granola Bars....
...And I Can Prove It
(click on the bar)

My Whizbang Row Cover Hoop System

My Whizbang Row Cover Hoop System
Coming Someday (hopefully)

Backyard Poultry Processing With My 11-Year-Old Son

Backyard Poultry Processing With My 11-Year-Old Son
If he can do it, so can you.
(click on the smiley face)

Get The Peppermint Zing!

Get The Peppermint Zing!
A sinus sauna how-to
(click photo for details)

Pickled Garlic Scapes

Pickled Garlic Scapes
Click on the silly boy's nose for a pickled scape tutorial

Backyard Sugaring

Backyard Sugaring
We make our own maple syrup. Click on the picture for complete how-to details.

Boys Will Be....Warriors

Boys Will Be....Warriors
Swinging homemade maces at each other can be great fun!

The Fun, Fast Way To Skin A Deer

The Fun, Fast Way To Skin A Deer
Seeing is believing

The Lovely Marlene With A Homemade Whizbang Garden Cart

The Lovely Marlene With A Homemade Whizbang Garden Cart
Anyone can make a Whizbang Garden Cart. Click on the picture to learn how.

Hay Hooks

Hay Hooks
I bought my sons hay hooks, and they have gotten a lot of use since I wrote this essay

My Amazing Whizbang Apple Grinder

My Amazing Whizbang Apple Grinder
You can make awesome apple mash, ready for pressing, in no time with this homemade device. Click on the picture to learn more

A Stable of Agrarian Bloggers

  • Allelon Farm
  • Amy's Humble Musings
  • An Emergent Agrarian
  • Aspiring Homemaker
  • Bunker Children Growing Up
  • Christian Farm & Ranchman
  • Down on The Farm
  • Dry Creek Chronicles
  • First Farmer Institute
  • Front Porch Republic
  • Granny Miller
  • Hopeful Homesteader
  • Howling Duck Ranch
  • In Due Season
  • Kansas Milkmaid
  • Log Cabin Homestead
  • Midland Agrarian
  • Mr. Flatpicker
  • My Journey to Separation
  • ND Homekeeper
  • Never Done Farm
  • North Country Farmer
  • On Big Turtle Creek
  • PotterVilla Academy
  • Process Driven Life
  • Promised Land
  • Rob's WildCraft
  • Rural Missourian
  • Rural Revolution
  • Sifford Sojournal
  • Sugar Mountain Farm
  • Tennesee Farmgirl
  • Turtle Mt. Hillbilly
  • Works in Progress

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