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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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About The Deliberate Agrarian.

I (Herrick KImball) have been blogging here about Faith, Family & Livin' The Good Life since 2005. Browse down this column and you will discover a rich resource of contra-industrial thought, down-to-earth inspiration & useful how-to information.

As of May 2013 I have ceased the regular once-a-month "blogazine" format and gone back to posting more often. Please sign up above to receive an e-mail notice when I post an essay to this blog.

CLICK HERE to view the archive of links to past Deliberate Agrarian monthly "blogazines."

My New York Times Op-Ed Article

My New York Times Op-Ed Article
The Jeffersonian Solution (click the man and read the article)

Delmar Ain't So Stupid...

Delmar Ain't So Stupid...
Click on Delmar and read why I think he's the smartest of the three characters in the "Oh Brother Where Art Thou" movie

This Blog Promotes Personal Responsibility And Traditional Concepts of American Liberty

This Blog Promotes Personal Responsibility And Traditional Concepts of American Liberty

NEW….
Whizbang Notes

NEW….<br>Whizbang Notes
These delightful little notebooks are a great down-to-earth tool. Click the beet to learn more.

Have You Seen My Whizbang Gardening Book?

Have You Seen My Whizbang Gardening Book?
5 stars at Amazon. Click the cover to learn more.

Strawberries From My Garden!

Strawberries From My Garden!
Grown the "E.P. Roe Way" (click the picture to learn more)

NEW…
This Book is a Must-Read for Those Who Want to Understand What Christian Agrarianism is...

NEW…<br>This Book is a Must-Read for Those Who Want to Understand What Christian Agrarianism is...
…Now available in Kindle format for only $2.99. Click the picture (and read the reviews)

I Make Classic American Clothespins

I Make Classic American Clothespins
click the clothespin and learn all about them.

City Living?

City Living?
Some Thoughts on Christian-Agrarian Community (click the picture)

Rural Americans: Cannon Fodder For The New World Order

Rural Americans: Cannon Fodder For The New World Order
Click on Sergeant York to read the story.

How To Get Through The Coming Hyperinflation

How To Get Through The Coming Hyperinflation
click the picture to read the 6-part series

This Man, Now Deceased, Predicted The Economic Decline of America Back in The 1950's.

This Man, Now Deceased, Predicted The Economic Decline of America Back in The 1950's.
Click the picture to read about Professor Walter Prescott Webb's Boom Hypothesis of Modern History, and where we are headed from here

Agrarian-Style Economic Self Defense...

Agrarian-Style Economic Self Defense...
I posted this to the internet in early 2008. It is still the most practical advice you'll get for dealing with the harsh economic realities that we face now and will face even more in the years ahead. (click the picture to read the essay)

How Free Men Become Slaves...

How Free Men Become Slaves...
A Contra-Industrial Parable From The Okefenokee Swamp (click the pigs)

Have You been to The Agrarian Foundation Article Archives?

Have You been to The Agrarian Foundation Article Archives?
It's a new web site I made. Clickk the picture and go...

Have You Been To Planet Whizbang?

Have You Been To Planet Whizbang?
It's my deliberate agrarian home business. Click the beet and check it out.

I'm a CentUp Blogger

I'm a CentUp Blogger
Click The Logo To Learn More

What Would an Agrarian Monetary System Look Like?

What Would an Agrarian Monetary System Look Like?
Well, for one thing, it would NOT be based on paper money. Click Andy Jackson for some details.

Thomas Jefferson's Warnings About Government Debt (Then and Now)

Thomas Jefferson's Warnings About Government Debt (Then and Now)
Read it and weep (click the president)

How Farmers Became Slaves To The Corporate Masters

How Farmers Became Slaves To The Corporate Masters
Click on the mostly forgotton 1937 book by Professor Walter Prescott Webb and learn the sad story
—:::—
"If a community, or a section, or a race, or an age, is groaning under industrialism, and well aware that it is an evil dispensation, it must find a way to throw it off. To think that this cannot be done is pusillanimous. And if the whole community, section, race, or age thinks it cannot be done, then... it has doomed itself to impotence."
—Twelve Southerners
—:::—

Learn About Whizbang Bucket Irrigation...

Learn About Whizbang Bucket Irrigation...
(click the trickle valve)

Agrarian Nation

Agrarian Nation
Another of my online projects (click the picture)

Have You Seen The Planet Whizbang Wheel Hoe I Invented?

Have You Seen The Planet Whizbang Wheel Hoe I Invented?
Click The Picture For Details about the hoe and the inexpensive wheel hoe kits I sell

Why Food?

Why Food?
A Christian-Agrarian perspective (click the picture to read the essay)

I Invite You To Read My Online Gardening Essays

I Invite You To Read My Online Gardening Essays
Click on that beautiful handful of sifted compost.

Have You Seen Leo Sprauer's Handcrafted Hop Hoe?

Have You Seen Leo Sprauer's Handcrafted Hop Hoe?
Click the picture to learn more.

A Missive On The Prosperity-Driven Life

A Missive On The Prosperity-Driven Life
"The desire to be rich, to have an abundance of possessions and money, is the keystone of our modern, neo-Babylonian culture." (click the picture for my perspective)

Prosperity Gospel/ Prosperity Idolatry

Prosperity Gospel/ Prosperity Idolatry
Click the picture to hear John Piper's powerful 2.5 minute condemnation of the modern prosperity gospel

Have You Read Roe?

Have You Read Roe?
E.P. Roe, that is. Click on his picture to read some excerpts from this remarkable Christian-agrarian author of the 1800s.

Have You Been To My New Instructional Web Site?

Have You Been To My New Instructional Web Site?
It's for people who garden (click the picture)

Some Deliberate Agrarian Archives

  • Faith
  • Christian Agrarianism
  • Family
  • Livin' The Good Life
  • Economics & The Economy
  • Agriculture
  • Whizbang Apple Cider Essays
  • Rural How-To
  • Community
  • My Younger Days
  • My Older Days
  • Rural Enterprise
  • Raising & Processing Poultry
  • Everything Garlic
  • Odds & Ends

"It is not necessary to make men, foolish or serious, agree with me, no matter what the principle is. They may have different faculties."

Stark Young

Two Kinds of Men

Two Kinds of Men
There are only two kinds of men in this world. Click the picture to learn more.

Links to my other blogs...

  • Diary of an 1892 Farmer's Wife
  • How To Butcher A Chicken
  • The Whizbang Garden Cart
  • The Whizbang Row Cover Hoop System
  • Whizbang Books Online
  • Whizbang Cider Press Plans
  • Whizbang Gardening

Agrarian Books I've Written

  • Writings of a Deliberate Agrarian
  • Whizbang Apple Cider Plan Book
  • 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

Scott Nearing's "Horse Chow"

Scott Nearing's "Horse Chow"
A Four Part Series
(click on any of the raisins in the bowl)

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I Invented Granola Bars....

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

Backyard Sugaring

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

Get The Peppermint Zing!

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

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)

Vacuum Bottle Thermos Cooking

Vacuum Bottle Thermos Cooking
Learn how to prepare and cook simple, inexpensive, wholesome meals (click the thermos bottle to read)

We Make Apple Cider

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

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)

Twelve Years Old Today

Twelve Years Old Today
He's actually 19 now, but my prayer is the same

Another Summer Evening's Meal

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

A Stable of Agrarian Bloggers

  • 5 Acres & A Dream
    Cucumbers For Chickens, Cucumbers For Goats - First garden pickings of anything are exciting. Eventually, however, things are going gangbusters and the question often becomes, what do I do with it all?...
    2 hours ago
  • Redeeming the Dirt
    Video Invitation to the 2014 Redeeming the Dirt Conference -
    6 hours ago
  • Sunnybrook Farm
    Wednesday 7/23 - Cloudy again yesterday morning but sunny later in the day. Here is Moodini stripping bark off of the mimosa trees and eating it. It must be good as I have...
    7 hours ago
  • National Young Farmers Coalition
    test again -
    8 hours ago
  • The Walden Effect
    Mud tire upgrade - [image: new recap mud tires for Chevy S-10] We decided to spend some of Anna's new book deal money on truck tires. Four good sized mud tires cost us just...
    10 hours ago
  • The Deliberate Agrarian
    No Stink Bugs,No Cucumber Beetles,No Flea Beetles,And No Insecticide! - Dateline: 23 July 2014 A view over my cucumber bed. Sweet potatoes in the background. (click pictures for enlarged views) This is the first year in four de...
    13 hours ago
  • Rocky Oak Homestead™
    Lost focus and regaining direction - I knew the beginning of the 2014 that things here at Rocky Oak were going to change.../discerment and intuition I suppose...What I didn't know was exactly ...
    14 hours ago
  • Thoughts from Frank and Fern
    Corn & Fall Seedlings - The corn was ripe and ready to pick, so that was the chore for today. I have found it easier to pick the patch if I pull up or break off the stalks as I pi...
    15 hours ago
  • North Country Farmer
    Save $5 on Canning DVD - Just wanted to let everyone know about this $5 off coupon code for Kendra’s “At Home Canning For Beginners and Beyond” DVD.. If you need some great instruc...
    17 hours ago
  • Thy Hand Hath Provided
    And Everything Shifts - I am torn between wanting to share out loud (this here feels pretty loud to me) and sticking to my safe spiral notebook. I want others to know what foster...
    17 hours ago
  • Hampton Victory Garden's Blog
    The Final Countdown - I try not to use song titles as blog titles, but I was born in 1964. This means I was raised on rock and roll and FM radio. Petroleum runs through my vei...
    18 hours ago
  • Florida Survival Gardening
    More on the power of encouragement - Last year I published a post on the power of encouragement. My parents nurtured and fed my nascent love of gardening, turning me into the garden teacher an...
    19 hours ago
  • Granny Miller
    Homegrown Linen Project Update - My homegrown and hand-woven linen dish towel and bread cloth project from last summer hit a few snags over the winter. The first set back was a major prob...
    23 hours ago
  • Reformation Acres
    ~Organic Rhubarb Leaf Pesticide Spray~ - Normally, I’m the kind of gal who likes to take a whole “wait and see” approach. I don’t like to meddle in the garden and I like to see if … Continue Readi...
    1 day ago
  • Well WaterBoy Products
    Hand Water Pump Breaks Record — 22 GPM at 80′ Static - Just when I think Darren has broken the most impossible record with the WaterBuck Pump, something new happens. Today he enlisted the help of a young neighb...
    2 days ago
  • The Sifford Sojournal
    Garden - Spring 2014 - Update I - It's been a couple of months since our last garden update, and so we thought we'd show the latest from the garden! Here is some of the first produce the Lo...
    2 days ago
  • Truth Farmer
    Right to Farm State Persecuting Small Farmer - Passionate Farmer Takes On Her Government Harassers With her life’s dream of being a small family farmer in Virginia, Martha Boneta obtained 64 acres i...
    2 days ago
  • Sugar Mountain Farm
    Raspberry Bounty - Raspberries This year we are seeing an enormous crop of raspberries along the fence lines and path sides of our fields. The ones in the picture are the sec...
    3 days ago
  • Rural Revolution
    Picking raspberries - The strawberries are just about over. After a frantic month of picking every other day, we have about sixty pounds in the freezer, oh joy! But yesterday's ...
    3 days ago
  • Country Living In a Cariboo Valley
    Drying Lovage and other Herbs - We have perennial herbs growing in the garden, so every year we get to enjoy harvests. We use them fresh in cooking, but we also dry the herbs to use in th...
    4 days ago
  • The Yellow Rose of Texas
    What is Milk Kefir? - *(This week I have chopped up an excerpt from my book, Off-Off Grid Dairy, for you. This book is still in post production, but why not post teasers? I ho...
    1 week ago
  • The Blog of Graham Donahue
    "Hi I'm Pro-Life and I'm Here to Kill You" - I want to write about something today that is a real close subject to my heart. It is something, that is for some reason rarely talked about in conservativ...
    1 week ago
  • Home Joys
    Lemon Cream Berry Pie - I LOVE fruit pies - and right now this lemon cream berry pie is my favorite. The combination of lemon and fruit is perfect. I have only made it with strawb...
    1 week ago
  • :: foutfolk ::
    best of both worlds . . . - Love so many things happening on the farm, and elsewhere! Asher, and a new FOUTFOLK FARM friend spent a few hours butchering a goat the other day. It was a g...
    1 week ago
  • TNfarmgirl
    It's that time of year again.... - It's been a busy week around here. We've been picking squash/zucchini, giving it away, putting it up and eating it every day. I don't think our plants ha...
    1 week ago
  • Works in Progress: A Homesteading Journey
    Farming Frustrations - **Disclaimer: this post contains medical/veterinary complaints and is gross. You have been forewarned.** I have been busy and I've been *meaning* to get a...
    2 weeks ago
  • an agrarian rhythm...
    wolfhalden: Der Landmann, 1894 / The Countryman Eugène... - wolfhalden: Der Landmann, 1894 / The Countryman Eugène Burnand (1850 –1921)
    4 weeks ago
  • Life in the clouds
    and todays big job is - House stumps. Our greatest Nemesis, the previous owner who thought he was a "handyman", has caused us a lot of work (not to mention a LOT of money). It s...
    5 weeks ago
  • The Southern Agrarian
    Family Reunions - While some would consider family reunions to be little more than a quaint tradition carried on by the “less sophisticated”, Southern culture takes a very d...
    5 weeks ago
  • Cultivated for God
    God’s Call to the Land: An Overview of Christian Agrarianism - First I want to thank Scott at North Country Farmer and host of Christian Farm and Homestead Radio for hosting my sermon on Christian Agrarianism while I f...
    1 month ago
  • On Big Turtle Creek
    The Heat Is On - After experiencing the most lovely, cool spring I can remember (God truly is gracious in our time of need) I believe summer has arrived. The first clue is...
    1 month ago
  • Glory Farm
    Spring! - It's spring-finally. Thermometer said 75 degrees yesterday! PTL!! Looking at my yard, I see another sign of spring-where's that lawnmower? My favorite sign...
    2 months ago
  • Hickery Holler Farm
    Everything Asparagus - Recently I received this email from June in Wisconsin. I have gotten several emails about asparagus recently and wanted to just touch base on growing a...
    2 months ago
  • Modern Christian Homestead
    The Problem With Free Range Chickens... - ... is free range laying. You would think I would know by now that when my egg supply dwindles and the birds are ranging that I should start hunting. Yest...
    2 months ago
  • A Process Driven Life
    Osage Two Diamonds is the Kindle Daily Deal! - I always hoped it might happen someday...*...Osage Two Diamonds is a Kindle Daily Deal for today!!!*OTD is one of the best things I've ever written, and it...
    2 months ago
  • Pastured Providence Farmstead
    Newsletter Website Tab - We’ve added a new page to our website, which contains links to our quarterly newsletter. The newsletters contain more insight into our farm decisions, dire...
    3 months ago
  • Log Cabin Homestead
    "He's Alive! - Don Francisco" -
    3 months ago
  • Agrarian Nation
    —1869—Earth Ovens - #122 Photo Link ### The following excerpt comes from The Cultivator & Country Gentleman magazine of January 7, 1869 ### *EDITORS, COUNTRY GENTLEMAN—* *...
    3 months ago
  • Digging Into Freedom's True Meaning
    A Christian-Agrarian - What is a Christian-agrarian? Herrick Kimbal introduced me to this term. The Christian part is easy enough to understand, but agrarian sounded a lit...
    3 months ago
  • The Midland Agrarian
    Deliberate Agrarian E Book special - For many years, my friend Herrick Kimball has been the most active and consistent voice of the Christian Agrarian movement. Three things always amaze me a...
    4 months ago
  • the ruminant
    The Podcast has moved to a new iTunes feed - Hi Folks, Pretty soon this site won’t exist. I’ve moved The Ruminant to new digs, and this required me to create a new podcast feed.[...]
    6 months ago
  • Far Better Farmstead
    Difference Between Store Bought and Home Raised Eggs - They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so here we go: In case you can't tell, the pale cloudy egg on the left is the store bought egg!
    7 months ago
  • ND Homekeeper
    Spring Has Finally Sprung - David brought me crab apple tree blossoms and lilacs. Now that spring is finally here, summer can't be too far away!
    1 year ago

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

Shooting Dad's Handgun

Shooting Dad's Handgun
"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."

My Whizbang Row Cover Hoop System

My Whizbang Row Cover Hoop System
Finally Online as of 1/29/10
(click the pic)

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

This Book Presents a Biblical Vision For God-Glorifying Agriculture. I Highly Recommend it!

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)

Pickled Garlic Scapes

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

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.

"Every Bean's A Blessing, Boys"

"Every Bean's A Blessing, Boys"
Dried beans present an opportunity to teach important things to my children (click the beans)

Hay Hooks

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

Have You Seen Jax Hamlin's Chickens?

Have You Seen Jax Hamlin's Chickens?
Click The Chicken!














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Check Out The 2010 Deliberate Agrarian Haiku Poetry Contest

Check Out The 2010 Deliberate Agrarian Haiku Poetry Contest
Three lines. Seventeen syllables. Win some neat prizes. (click the picture)

I Make Money Selling Information Downloads On The Internet

I Make Money Selling Information Downloads On The Internet
It's easy to do and I'll tell you how. Click the picture to read my story.
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