The Deliberate Agrarian

In my previous essay I discussed the wisdom of developing a part-time home business as a financial safety cushion in the event of job loss....

I was disappointed to read Matthew Potter’s recent post wherein he reports that his father is now unemployed because of a mass layoff at the...

1 888–1963 Back in 1952, the University of Texas historian, Walter Prescott Webb, wrote a book titled The Great Frontier .  I do not ...

Labor Day (today) marks the end of summer for another year, and the end of my blogging vacation. There are a few trees here and there now sh...

I am doing some updating and organizing of this blog in anticipation of returning to blogging next month. One of the things I've done is...

Strawberries and blueberries and raspberries are all beautiful in their own way, but they just don’t compare to clusters of grapes on the vi...

[Dateline: 8 August 2008] . It has been an unusually good growing season here in the Finger Lakes region of New York state. We have h...

Dateline: 6 August 2008 Updated: 11 April 2013 Bindweed ( photo link ) My friend Steve is a Christian-agrarian homesteader. He...

Dateline: 4 August 2008 Updated: 26 April 2013 I’ve been an enthusiastic gardener since I was a teenager. My interest right from the ...

Dateline: 2 August 2008 It is time to announce the winner of the Peterson Coppertop Bluebird House Contest ( Click Here for contest det...