The Deliberate Agrarian

I came home from work today to find my son, Robert, lighting firecrackers in the front yard. Firecrackers are something new around here. I n...

We used to have an electric stove in the kitchen but, back in 1999, with the Y2k crisis looming, we bought a no-frills gas stove and put a 5...

Strawberries are in peak season here on our little homestead. Last Sunday, for breakfast we had strawberry shortcake with lots of berries....

Many folks responded to my offer to borrow and view The Future of Food documentary movie. Several of those people did not, however, have an...

Dateline: 23 June 2006 Earlier this month, fellow Central new Yorker Mike Miller contacted me by e-mail to see if his 11-year-old ...

Dateline: 21 June 2006 In my book, Writings of a Deliberate Agrarian , I have a chapter titled, "Industrial Providers", in whi...

Dateline: 20 June 2006 A few days ago, Marlene and I were working in the garden together. I was hoeing and weeding and Marlene was plant...

Dateline: 17 June 2006 In response to a recent blog post here, Marci Bulbaugh (a.k.a., Farm Girl ) posted that she had read my book, Wri...

Dateline: 15 June 2006 I was at the post office a few days ago and a fellow I sort-of know and always say “Hi” to told me he was reading...

Dateline: 14 June 2006 Last Saturday my son, Chaz, called from the lumberyard where he works to let me know there were lots of free pall...

Dateline: 12 June 2006 The Lovely Marlene and I were picking weeds out of the strawberry rows last night just before dark. There ar...

Dateline: 10 June 2006 It is turtleneck cold here in central New York State. And we continue to get lots of rain. My sandy, well-drained...