The Deliberate Agrarian

Late last year I received something that I didn’t much like in the mail from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Stat...

Dear Friends, I hope this letter finds you all well. I am writing to you this evening from a Best Western hotel room on the outskirts of Alb...

Dateline: 25 April 2007 At 49 years old, I’m on the brink of becoming an old codger. I remember when I was a boy, my mother wrap...

Longtime readers of this blog may recall last year’s blog about my boys and their field car . Later, I blogged about how the car had died......

Dear Friends, As you who have been reading this blog know, I have been working these past months to birth a new Whizbang book. The work cont...

When Marlene and I started building our own home back in 1984, we didn’t have plans drawn up by an architect and we didn’t ask any governmen...

A big spring storm has hit us here in upstate New York, and our electricity went out....again. The power usually comes back on after a few h...

Dateline: 15 April 2007 It was two years ago when Marlene called me at work one day to ask if, on my way home, I would pick up her sewin...

A couple blogs back, I wrote about the Christian-agrarian documentary, A Journey Home . At that time, I offered to share my copy of the DVD ...

The following letter was posted in response to my previous post in which I spoke of genetic modification (GM) and the possibility that the m...

I am cramming to finish my next Whizbang book by the end of this month. There are so many details and loose ends. The project drags on, and ...

I refuse to have cable or satellite television service. That’s because I loathe television. I almost never watch it any more. But I like to ...