The Deliberate Agrarian

Those of you who have read my Christian-agrarian memoir, Writings of a Deliberate Agrarian may recall Chapter 30: “My Son and His Journal.”...

I’ve read numerous internet reports in recent days of people around the world hoarding food, particularly rice. My family doesn’t eat much r...

Dateline: 24 April 2008 This is a blog about faith, family, and livin’ the good life. My faith is Christian. I view the world through t...

Almost exactly three years ago, when I first discovered blogs on the internet, I posted a comment over on Scott Terry’s Homesteader Life bl...

It has been almost three years since I established The Deliberate Agrarian and started writing here about “Faith, Family & Livin’ The G...

Dateline: 11 April 2008 My previous essay in this series explained how we boil maple tree sap down to syrup in a jerrybuilt, wood-fired...

Dateline: 10 April 2008 As I mentioned in a previous essay of this series, one of the great things about Backyard Sugarin’ is that we ...

Dateline: 9 April 2008 In the previous essay of this series I showed and explained how my family taps sugar maple trees to collect sap ...

Dateline: 8 April 2008 In Part 1 of this how-to series  I explained that my family makes maple syrup on a small scale in our back yard, ...