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The Deliberate Agrarian (Herrick Kimball) is now posting occasional essays at Heavenstretch. Click the picture for details.
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My Stewardculture Magazine Interview
(Part 1)
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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
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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.
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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)
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)
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)
A Stable of Agrarian Bloggers
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Random September Photos - Seems like we had a short summer this year: fairly cool through June, only a few days in the 90s, and lots of clouds and rain in August. I think I swappe...
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Pasture requirements - A reader just sent in a question as follows: "I know it is just fall, but I am one those that plans ahead. Say in the spring I wanted just 4 cows, how mu...
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Summer of Faith - We just got home from a week's vacation in Chincoteague. Now summer is officially over, and we will begin fall routines. When I flip through the photos f...
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The Biggest Thing Since Sliced Bread….In Bioweapons - Often times, those on the ground, digging for things, come up with pretty viable connections that those who are just trying to stay on top of things…Miss. ...3 days ago
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How to Make Willow Water – for Rooting Plants and Watering Plants - You can make willow water, then use it for a DIY rooting hormone! Have a favorite shrub or bush you would love to have two or three more of, to plant in ...5 days ago
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Preserving the Bounty of Summer - Pears and hot peppers! Sometimes even together: It’s really nice having cooler days. It’s… The post Preserving the Bounty of Summer appeared first on The...6 days ago
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Psalm Singing - September 2021 - We finally finished up recording the next set of Psalms from the psalter we use, this time Psalms 94A-98B! Interestingly in this set, Psalm 98A breaks off ...2 weeks ago
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Find us here! - Continue to follow us here! See videos and pictures of our projects as well as just thoughts on random topics. https://www.facebook.com/Serenity-Acres-Hom...2 weeks ago
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September Already - Another September has rolled in and I have yet to figure out where August went. It started out with having to say farewell to and old friend. Phineus ...
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Staying Calm in Captivity - If you are a Christian, how are you dealing with the days in which we live? Consider this sermon about Daniel and where our focus should be.4 weeks ago
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August 2021 FRSAN-NE Newsletter - **This is a bilingual newsletter. Spanish content is below the English.** **Este es un boletín bilingüe. Para inglés busque abajo, para español continúe ab...1 month ago
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Using No-Till to Maximize Your Production! - Plowing and tilling has become such a part of farming and gardening that many of us can’t imagine how you would prepare a garden or grow crops any other wa...2 months ago
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Innovative And Sustainable Gardening Ideas - The innovative gardener wants to stay abreast of new trends in gardening, regardless if it’s a hobby or a profession. New gadgets come out every year, an...3 months ago
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Does Apple Cider Vinegar Go Bad? Answers to Some Important Questions - So you’re cleaning out the pantry but have a question: does apple cider vinegar go bad? This kind of vinegar might smell pungent and be difficult to cons...3 months ago
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An Interview About Our Homeschooling Journey - A friend asked me a bunch of questions and I did my best to answer. You can find the interview here.
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This Blog is Closed - *We have moved. Y**ou may now find us at:* *thoughtsfromfrankandfern.wordpress.com*
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Manitowoc Calling - For the last three weeks, I’ve received an unknown call on my cell phone. The call comes in at the same time every day, but I never answer it. Manitowoc C...9 months ago
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Updates on drip irrigation and caterpillar tunnels (plus cantaloupes) - [image: Summer asparagus] July and August are always the months when I look at our garden and despair. Not for the usual reason --- weeds. But because perf...1 year ago
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White Privilege – Guilty As Charged - This is a slightly updated version of something I first wrote and published on February 17, 2011. It could be considered an illustration of my personal mot...1 year ago
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Our Opportunities are Daily. - Hello. The O’Neill family is past the two week marker for our social distancing measures. No more are my grocery trips, thrift shopping sprees, or overp...
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Linthead Stomp, Act Three - ACT THREE Scene One Setting is a drab sparsely-furnished millworker house in Leaksville. On the wall is a 1930 calendar and a poster for The North Caro...1 year ago
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The Last Farmer - An Interview in 2001 with Marvelous Marv Grabacre From Gene Logsdon {Thanks to Pamela Smith, an Editor with The Progressive Farmer, we are posting an artic...1 year ago
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Best Home Canned Tomato Soup Recipe - This is our favorite tomato soup recipe for canning. This recipe makes a tomato soup concentrate canned in pint jars The post Best Home Canned Tomato Sou...2 years ago
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Do you need a Water Well Bucket? - As if the threats of war, terrorism, economic collapse, natural and man-made catastrophes, plagues, solar flares and EMPs are not enough to consider, we no...2 years ago
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Herrick Kimball Is Now Blogging At Heavenstretch - Dateline: 23 June 2019 I've blogged on this Blogger format for 14 years. Blogger was a good place for me for most of those years. But it has become so pr...
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Go Up On A Tall Mountain - Go up on a tall mountain, like where your ancestors once sacrificed to idols and learn that you are nothing. The post Go Up On A Tall Mountain appeared fi...2 years ago
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Monday walk to the barn - Aggy went for a walk to the barn and a doe was watching her from near the creek. She had probably never seen a dog spinning around in a circle and of cou...
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it's summer... - jambaoney here! it's summer!! Well it has been a LONG while since i posted anything here. i was really caught up in work over the winter and into the sp...
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Your Monthly Cultivation – March 19, 2018 - Latest on Vesterbrook Farm and the issues that those around them using herbicides caused for their organic farm. If you would like to help Mike Brabo and V...3 years ago
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Looking back and Looking On: 2016 reflections and 2017 dreams - The blog has been quiet these days, but we've been busy behind the scenes. At times, it feels like I get nothing done but keeping the kids alive and us ...
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Three Vintage Hogs! - Photo from "Connecticut and the Hog." Click the picture for a larger view. If you like pigs, you're going to love this collection of three rare, vintage, ...
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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 years 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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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...5 years ago
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Giveaway #6Gardening When It Counts(three winners) - This is, without a doubt, my favorite gardening book. I'm giving away three copies of *Gardening When It Counts* to three fortunate people in this conte...
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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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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...6 years ago
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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...6 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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boys room . . . - The boys room, on the other hand, had paper. And lots of it! Some of it was peeling off already, so it made it a little easier to peel the rest of the pa...
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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
America's New Declaration of Independence
(click the picture)
Check Out The 2010 Deliberate Agrarian Haiku Poetry Contest
Three lines. Seventeen syllables. Win some neat prizes. (click the picture)
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Dateline: 14 February 2009 Ten years ago I started growing chickens for meat here on my little 1.5 acre homestead. I pastured them in... -
Dateline: 17 August 2006 ”I don’t want to grow up to be a helpless man.” That’s what my 11-year-old son, James, said to me las... -
I recently had occasion to watch that movie, “Oh Brother Where Art Thou?” Chances are you have seen it. It is a popular movie with a famo... -
I have written here before about the ever-increasing control of a handfull of enormous global corporations over the world's food supply...
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Dateline: 7 August 2006 Many people who visit this blog know what a chicken tractor is, and some even have one or more of them. For thos...
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Dateline: 20 September 2006 I’ve been blogging here for over a year now and, though it has been mentioned, I have never dedicated an ent... -
Dateline: 12 January 2007 Some people live to hunt. Some people hunt to live. I don’t really hunt at all. I just didn’t grow up in a... -
[Dateline: 4 November 2008] I have been working over at least four cider seasons to develop a simple, efficient, homestead-size system for... -
Last year around this time I borrowed my friend Ken’s cider press and we made apple cider. I posted about the experience in my blog entry t...
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Dateline 6 September 2013 I have been craving dandelion root tea. When I worked my prison job I always had a box of Alvita Dand...
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