The Deliberate Agrarian

Dateline: 1 July 2008 The price of oil is skyrocketing. Inflation and fiscal foolishness is ravaging the economy. Our nation is bogged d...

Dateline: 29 July 2008 In a previous blog essay titled, Room & Board For The Birds I told you about how I provide nesting boxes...

Dateline: 28 June 2008 Updated: 26 April 2013 As the price of gas and diesel fuel soars ever higher, there is a lot of discussion abou...

Last summer I observed an amazing natural drama being played out in the field across the road from my house. A great many swallows (easily h...

Today I did something kind of different. I had lunch with Michael Bunker. He and a couple of men from his Christian agrarian community in Te...

There are people who I suspect make a good living off of gloom and doom prognostications. They write best-selling books with all the evidenc...

Dateline: 25 June 2008 Updated: 27 April 2013 Much of the “good life” revolves around good food. I define good food as fresh, whol...

My first truck was a basic Ford F150. I bought it used from my father-in-law when I was just getting started in the building trades around 3...

Dateline: 20 June 2008 Allan C. Carlson [A]t this very apogee of the mega-farm, something new—and yet very old—may be stirring. I...

Three years ago today I posted my first entry to this blog. I started blogging with the idea that I would share my thoughts about Faith, Fa...

Yesterday morning early I was working in my garden. A half hour before it was time to get ready for church, I started feeling poorly. My joi...

It is a hot and muggy Saturday afternoon. I was out in my garden early this morning and worked until the heat was unbearable. After lunch I...