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The Deliberate Agrarian (Herrick Kimball) has now launched a video blog. Click the picture for details.
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About The Deliberate Agrarian.
My Stewardculture Magazine Interview
(Part 1)
Click The Picture For Details
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
Aphorisms Of The Fathers...
And The Mothers (click the picture)
My New York Times Op-Ed Article
The Jeffersonian Solution (click the man and read the article)
Check Out My New Whizbang Gardening Facebook Page...
(click the picture to get there)
Reestablishing The Family Economy—Part 1
It's A Biblical Imperative
(click the picture)
Reestablishing The Family Economy—Part 2
We Are Not Called To Be Slaves (click the picture)
Reestablishing The Family Economy—Part 3
Profile of a Free Man
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Reestablishing The Family Economy—Part 4
Sage Advice For Would-Be Farmers
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Corporationism vs Independent Patriarchal Units
Lyberty Hyde Bailey (1927)
Read it and weep.
(click the picture)
Read The Book—
Writings Of A Deliberate Agrarian
…Now available as a PDF download for only $4.50 (click the picture for details)
Farming 1.5 Acres...
…And Making A Good Living. (click the picture)
Goodness, Beauty & Loving The Earth
A Christian-Agrarian Missive on God's Creation
Reading Agriphemera
We can learn a lot from the old agricultural writings (Click the picture for more details)
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...
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)
Modern Banking is An Evil System of Economic Oppression
Click the picture for details
The Coming Pension Crisis...
...And what you can do about it. (click the picture)
How To Get Through The Coming Hyperinflation
click the picture to read the 6-part series
Have You Considered Deflation?
Martin Armstrong seems pretty sure of himself (click the sign for details)
The Christian Doctrine of Work
Something's Missing in The 10 Commandmants as it is commonly known. (click the picture)
Scott Nearing's "Horse Chow"
A Four Part Series
(click on any of the raisins in the bowl)
Mr. Tesoro's Story
(click the picture)
Blessed is the Man...
Reflections on "tax day." (click the old paper)
City Living?
Some Thoughts on Christian-Agrarian Community (click the picture)
A Herod Nation
Is that What America Has Become? (click the picture)
How To Remember (And Teach Your Children) The 10 Commandments
click the sad bath
Light in Our Dwellings...
Christianity + Agrarianism = Hope In the midst of a dying industrial culture (click the light)
Have You Seen My Whizbang Gardening Book?
5 stars at Amazon. Click the cover to learn more.
New From Planet Whizbang...
The Old-Timer's Poultry Library
A rare and fascinating resource for the poultry lover (click the picture for details)
Take A Short Tour Of My Garden...
Strawberries From My Garden!
Grown the "E.P. Roe Way" (click the picture to learn more)
Rural Americans: Cannon Fodder For The New World Order
Click on Sergeant York to read the story.
Freedom Isn't Free (And Other Propoganda)
(click the picture)
Esther Stermer Was A Conspiracy Theorist!
Obviously the woman was a little crazy.… Right? (click the picture for the story)
How Free Men Become Slaves...
A Contra-Industrial Parable From The Okefenokee Swamp (click the pigs)
I Make Classic American Clothespins
click the clothespin and learn all about them.
Have You been to The Agrarian Foundation Article Archives?
(click the picture and go)
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)
Read it and weep (click the president)
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
Why Food?
A Christian-Agrarian perspective (click the picture to read the essay)
The Puritan Theology of Suffering...
An excellent treatise on a difficult subject. (click the picture to learn more)
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
Click the picture to hear John Piper's powerful 2.5 minute condemnation of the modern prosperity gospel
Homo-Tyranny
... And Me (click the trap)
Agrarian Nation
Another of my online projects (click the picture)
Have You Been To Planet Whizbang?
It's my deliberate agrarian home business. Click the beet and check it out.
NEW….
Whizbang Notes
These delightful little notebooks are a great down-to-earth tool. Click the beet to learn more.
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
I Invite You To Read My Online Gardening Essays
Click on that beautiful handful of sifted compost.
The Wife
Of My Youth...
A Blessed Man's Reflections on Young Love (click the happy faces)
Eulogy For Evelyn
She was my mother-in-law. (click the picture)
Ken Badman's Good Example
Actions Speak Louder Than Words. (click the picture)
Backyard Sugaring
We make our own maple syrup. Click on the picture for complete how-to details.
Have You Seen Leo Sprauer's Handcrafted Hop Hoe?
Click the picture to learn more.
Learn About Whizbang Bucket Irrigation...
(click the trickle valve)
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?
It's for people who garden (click the picture)
Some Deliberate Agrarian Archives
Two Kinds of Men
There are only two kinds of men in this world. Click the picture to learn more.
They Are Not Human...
Don't ever forget it (click the skull)
Links to my other blogs...
Agrarian Books I've Written
Total Pageviews
A Stable of Agrarian Bloggers
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Bays Mountain water lilies - [image: Beaver highway] My first barge ride in many years.... The boat has been upgraded, the phoebe is still nesting in the rafters, and all I had eyes fo...5 hours ago
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Deconstructing Ugly - I was very busy last week. I spent my free time in an old building, dusting and decluttering a collection of archival artifacts. I went to a “farm to tab...5 hours ago
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Brazilian Pepper Composting and Mulch: Good or Bad? - Brazilian pepper composting or use as mulch? Good idea or bad idea? I have spoken in the past of Brazilian pepper’s usefulness as a “chop and drop” speci...7 hours ago
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Wheat Harvest - Last fall I planted a quarter-acre of wheat. Last week it was ready to harvest. Dan cutting the wheat with his European scythe. It would have been much b...
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Young Farmers Rely on Affordable Health Care - This week, with the Senate’s repeal of the Affordable Care Act looming, young farmers from across the country wrote to tell us about what’s at stake on the...20 hours ago
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Late June Postcards - Y’all, there are pears on our pear tree. They are small and five in number but they are real live pears. And we ended up butchering one of the wild hogs wh...21 hours ago
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Time for Nightshades - Now that brassicas have mostly all bitten the dust, this is the time of year when the nightshades step to the front. We’re harvesting beautiful Yukon Gold ...1 day ago
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O God, Our Help In Ages Past - The more I think about God and His character, the more my trust in Him grows. I can hardly sing this song without tears. I'm so grateful for a God who has ...
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Sad News—Joyce Riley Passed Away Today - As many of you know, Joyce has been fighting cancer for a long time. I just received a notice from the Power Hour that she passed away today. Joyce was an ...2 days ago
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Make Money Hatching and Selling Chicks with Lisa Murano - When most homesteaders think about making money with chickens, they think about selling pastured broilers or eggs. In this episode The post Make Money Ha...3 days ago
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Finding Free Firewood - Filling the woodroom – it’s one of our Top 5 “W” chores every spring. And we have been hard at it for the last several weeks. And we love finding free fi...4 days ago
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Your Bi-Weekly Cultivation #39 - A recent article on whether Organic Agriculture Can Feed the World An interesting look at Roots: Digging Deep Reveals the Intricate World of Roots An artic...5 days ago
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Early Bird Discount Through this Weekend! - We are offering a 10% early bird discount for people who register for our upcoming Christian Agricultural Classes. The code is RTD10 and is only good throu...3 weeks ago
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Grace Is The Currency Of The True Economy - Grace. The concept of unmerited favor. Those who claim to be born-again Christians should understand this definition. But, I wonder if too many of us lim...4 weeks ago
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2017 Update - Dateline: 17 May 2017 "The Deliberate Agrarian" has undergone yet another transformation. I have gone from blogging here, to blogging at my new Upland bl...
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A Tribute to Dewayne Block - This tribute was posted to the Standing Stone Honey Products Facebook page this week. Something you find with a home business is that many people have he...
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Upcoming Farm School! - If you’ve made it this far on this blog, you deserve a pat on the back… it took real patience and perseverance to make that happen! The reality is that I d...4 months ago
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January - OK, so January has rolled around. The heat is here, not as bad as some years and bringing a decent amount of rain too. The grass has come on and the cattle...
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2017 CSA Season - Yep. I'm still here. Christmas and New Year's have past. January is time to start thinking about taxes and gardens. Let's just think about the gardens a...
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Shallow Well Hand Pumps - Today, a water well hand pump can be as useful as it was before electric pumps were invented, especially when the power grid fails. Water can be pumped to...7 months ago
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Please don't waste your Tuesday! - Let's set the mood first... Okay... for those of you who don't know, I am a conservative Christian. I have mixed feelings about the Republicans and have ...
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Local and Love Pets? - Essential Oils for Fido and Felix! Bill and I love animals and we like to support their health as naturally as possible on our homestead. Would you like to...10 months ago
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Fare Well, from Frank & Fern - We have reached a major milestone on the blog. Since we began writing here on May 30, 2013, we have had 1,000,000 pageviews. Yes, one million, because an u...
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Storing Food and Possibly the Coolest Thing Ever! - Food storage is imperative on a homestead. You might think that goes without saying. While I can freeze quite a bit, it is not sustainable...meaning if t...
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A Cloth Diaper Odyssey - Swaddlebees Organic Fitted Diapers I have been cloth diapering little bottoms since 1993 when my first daughter was born. Back then you didn't have ...
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Here's how to subscribe via e-mail at the new site! - Hi, Florida Survival Gardening subscribers! Many of you asked if it was possible to continue receiving my posts on a daily basis since I switched over to a...1 year ago
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Plagues - Been busy canning here in the holler! Lots of cucumbers, squash and zucchini. Twenty jars of green beans about a dozen quarts of squash canned. Made a ga...
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Rabbit and Kraut - David asked for a rabbit dish with sauerkraut. I didn’t have a particular recipe, so I looked over my cookbook library and pulled a Russian/German/Polish...2 years ago
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Goodbye Granny Miller - If this weblog were one of my sheep or cows, it would have starved from neglect! I have been meaning to post about a couple of things, but real life somet...
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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!
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I Invented Granola Bars....
...And I Can Prove It
(click on the bar)
Get The Peppermint Zing!
A sinus sauna how-to
(click photo for details)
Yeoman Furniture & My New Wood Box
Yeomen don't buy furniture.
They make their own. (click the picture)
Yeoman Furniture
(Part 2)
Waste Not, Want Not (click the picture for the story)
My Amazing Whizbang Apple Grinder
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You can make awesome apple mash, ready for pressing, in no time with this homemade device. Click on the picture to learn more
We Make Apple Cider
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You can too
(click on the picture to learn how)
Twelve Years Old Today
He's actually 22 now, but my prayer is the same
This is William Kimball
(Him An Me Is Kin)
Click on the picture for William's Story
Homegrown Poultry
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Click on the picture and I'll show you how to butcher a chicken
The Lovely Marlene With A Homemade Whizbang Garden Cart
Anyone can make a Whizbang Garden Cart. Click on the picture to learn how.
My Whizbang Row Cover Hoop System
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Finally Online as of 1/29/10
(click the pic)
Have You Seen Jax Hamlin's Chickens?
Click The Chicken!
This Blog Promotes Personal Responsibility And Traditional Concepts of American Liberty
The Christian-Agrarian Exodus of 1620
The Pligrims did NOT come to America for religious freedom.
(click the picture)
Vacuum Bottle Thermos Cooking
Learn how to prepare and cook simple, inexpensive, wholesome meals (click the thermos bottle to read)
The Sermon I'll Never Forget
Pastor West was at Iwo Jima
(click Mt. Suribachi)
Planting Potatoes With A Little Girl
"I must admit that four year old girls were once something like aliens to me." (click the pic)
Boys Will Be…. Warriors
Swinging homemade maces at each other can be great fun!
(click the warriors)
Benny's Grandfather Was A Ditch Digger
And He Grew Tomatoes
(click the Big Boy)
Backyard Poultry Processing With My 11-Year-Old Son
If he can do it, so can you.
(click on the smiley face)
Another Summer Evening's Meal
This is the kind of food we dream about in the depths of winter.
(click on the picture)
Pickled Garlic Scapes
Click on the silly boy's nose for a pickled scape tutorial
"Every Bean's A Blessing, Boys"
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Dried beans present an opportunity to teach important things to my children (click the beans)
Hay Hooks
I bought my sons hay hooks, and they have gotten a lot of use since I wrote this essay
When Me & Ed Made Apple Cider
The Year Was 1976
(click the old press)
The Fun, Fast Way To Skin A Deer
Seeing is believing
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2 comments:
Thank you for stepping up to the plate on this issue. You are one of Christian agrarianism's most gracious and eloquent apologists :-)
Blessings,
Brenda
Herrick, I recently discovered your blog. It is wonderfully and intelligently written. Thank you.
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