The Deliberate Agrarian

Dateline: 7 April 2008 Yours truly collecting maple sap Chapter One of my book, "Writings of a Deliberate Agrarian," is t...

I stayed for dinner after church today and, in conversation, the topic of wheat came up. If you didn’t know already, wheat prices have more ...

A friend of mine recently told me that in his town the building code does not allow anyone to build a home that is less than 900 square feet...

I have a lot of little things on my mind that I’d like to share with you..... Scott’s Emulsion As a follow-up to my last blog essay I’d like...

Dateline: 1 April 2008 Scott in his later years. I have been writing about Scott and Helen Nearing, authors of the 1954 classic, ...

Dateline: 28 March 2008 Scott & Helen building a stone wall. My last two blog esays have been about Scott and Helen Nearing, ...

Dateline: 26 March 2008 Scott & Helen Nearing In my previous essay I introduced you to the classic back-to-the land book, L...

Dateline: 25 March 2008 Scott & Helen Nearing in the early years Scott & Helen Nearing were icons of the 1970s back-to-th...

My pet project this year is my newest blog Old Farm Almanacs . Here is a sampling of postings I've made there for this month of March: F...

Today at lunch Marlene told me about a conversation she had with her friend who lives not too far from us. Her friend related that a neighbo...

Matthew Potter is 18 years old. He lives with his family in a farm house on 1.5 acres of land in Michigan. His father is an electrical engin...

[Dateline: 13 March 2008] You've probably heard the big news. Today, for the first time ever, the value of one ounce of gold squeaked pa...