The Deliberate Agrarian

Dateline: 26 June 2007 PLEASE NOTE: Before reading this story I feel I should warn you that it contains a graphic picture of a bloody a...

We bought twelve, day-old turkeys back in May. They are five weeks old. We are raising them for meat. We have raised chickens for meat for s...

Dateline: 22 June 2007 Last year I blogged here about my great, great, maternal grandmother Josephine Jordan and her 1892 diary. Somet...

Dateline: 21 June 2007 I do not have a lot of regrets in life but I do have a few. My number-one regret, by far, is that I planned m...

Dateline: 20 June 2007 "It is not absolutely necessary to sift finished compost, but there is nothing so pleasing to the sensibil...

There is a new discussion group at Yahoo that may be of interest to many of you who read this blog: AgrarianChristian

Dateline: 16 June 2007 Lavender is, to me one of the most pleasing of botanical fragrances. Both the leaves and the flowers are an...

I like writing and illustrating and producing my own books. But the best part of writing a book is getting it done! The above book, Anyone C...

My newest book, Anyone Can Build A Whizbang Garden Cart is on schedule to be published by the end of this month. I’m anxious to have those ...

Dateline: 21 May 2007 Were you to casually look upon the 24 wood-framed garden beds that comprise my “kitchen garden,” you would not be...

It all started in Genesis, in a garden. The garden was an integral part of God’s plan for man. And so it is that the Christian-agrarian “goo...

My younger sons, Robert and James have been picking rocks for a local dairy farmer in the afternoons. They picked rocks every day last week....