The Deliberate Agrarian

Dear Friends & Visitors, I am taking a break from blogging so I can focus more on faith, family and livin’ the good life. I’m also tryin...

My Son’s New Job My oldest son, Chaz, has less interest in agrarian things than anyone else in the family. But he has the most agrarian job....

In my book, “Writings of a Deliberate Agrarian,” I have a chapter titled, “Returning to the Family Economy.” In the final paragraph of that ...

Dateline: 14 January 2007 I wrote a blog awhile back explaining what Yeoman Furniture is and I showed you the shaker-style wood box I ...

I was 18 years old when I developed an interest in poetry. It started with a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow name Excelsior . I was so in...

[Dateline: January 2007] It is incumbent upon Christians to understand what agrarianism and Christian agrarianism is all about. I say th...

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...

All this talk of community cookbooks makes me want to post a favorite recipe. This recipe for Molasses Crumb Cake comes from Mary Edmonds, w...

I've been blogging about community and my previous blog entry was about a community cookbook. The thought occurred to me that someone sh...

It was one of Marlene’s cookbooks that got me to thinking about the subject of community in my last blog entry. The cookbook is a 238 page, ...

Dateline: 9 January 2007 Abraham allows his nephew, Lot, to choose the land he wants. At two o’clock this morning, awake with a si...

In 2 Timothy 1:5 the apostle Paul writes to Timothy and tells him that the faith that is in him (Timothy)“dewlt first in thy grandmother Loi...