The Deliberate Agrarian

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

Herrick Kimball's Apple Cider Essays

If you are interested in making your own apple cider, you will find a wealth of valuable information and cider inspiration in the following essays:

Cider Making 2006 (Introducing My New Whizbang Apple Crusher)

Introducing My Homemade Whizbang Apple Cider Press

Whizbang Cider Pressin' In The Kitchen

Pressing Cider in a Bucket (An Experiment)

Cider Pressin’ 2005

When Me & Ed Made Apple Cider

Making Apple Cider In The Old Days

My Vinegar & Hard Cider Experiment

My Cider Vinegar Experiment: The Remarkable Final Report
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Welcome to The Deliberate Agrarian.

I've 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.

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My New York Times Op-Ed Article

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

Join The Planet Whizbang 2014 Tomato Grow-Up Contest...

Join The Planet Whizbang 2014 Tomato Grow-Up Contest...
(click the lovely Juliets)

Whizbang Gardening is My Newest Book

Whizbang Gardening is My Newest Book
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)

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)

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

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.

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)

National Young Farmer's Coalition

National Young Farmer's Coalition
(click the logo)

Agrarian Nation

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

The Deliberate Agrarian Book

The Deliberate Agrarian Book
(click picture for details)

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)

Deliberate Agrarian Archives (From Back Before The Monthly Format)

  • 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

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)

It's Time to make maple syrup!

It's Time to make maple syrup!
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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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