The Deliberate Agrarian

Dateline: January 2007  My 15-year-old son, Robert, told me he wants to make money selling something on the internet. I suggested that he ...

Kept The Faith This day is, in my life, a day to record. I have signed away to a younger man most of those acres where for many years I ha...

I have established another blog to tell the story of my great, great grandmother's diary. It is called, Diary of an 1892 Farmer's Wi...

Gee but it’s great to be back here after my three week Christmas vacation (from blogging)! The time off has led me to reflect a bit about b...

Dear Friends & Fellow Agrarians, Every so often, I need to take a break from blogging. It isn't that I get tired of writing here. On...

A couple blogs back, I wrote about The Elder Agrarian: C.F. Marley. It was Mr. Marley who introduced me to the National Catholic Rural Life ...

Every so often someone will bring up the idea of starting something akin to a National Christian Agrarian Association. It is a well-intentio...

Dateline: 7 December 2006 I see that Rick Saenz has already written about the book, Flee to the Fields: The Founding Fathers of th...

Dateline: 6 December 2006 C.F. Marley A few months ago I got a phone call from a guy by the name of C. F. Marley in Nokomis, Illino...

Dateline: 5 December 2006 Billy Graham, in 1970 When I was a kid my family rarely attended church. So when I ended up at Boy Sc...

Dateline: December 2006 Updated: December 2011 In my previous blog entry I talked about the classic movie It’s a Wonderful Life . The mo...

Dateline: 30 November 2006 Revised: December 2015 One of my family’s Christmas holiday traditions is to watch the 1946 Frank Capr...