The Deliberate Agrarian

I have been on leave from blogging here since Thanksgiving last. Now it is time to be back, and it is good to be back. I’m feeling philosoph...

I have decided to take leave of blogging here for a season. I need to turn my attention to the task of producing my next book which will be ...

I came to read about John Calvin around 15 years ago as a result of an unusual incident.... I was remodeling a kitchen. The man I was workin...

I have removed this blog essay. I expect to edit and republished it at a later time.

I see that the Bartlett Boys up in North Dakota have been hunting deer and home-processing the harvest. We have been doing much the same he...

When my son Robert was still very young, he was fascinated with flashlights and batteries and how they worked. I remember him taking the ess...

I spoke at some length today with a man I have known for a few years as a casual acquaintance. He was born in 1944. He grew up here in centr...

An Agrarian-Style Economic Self Defense Plan Slouching Away From Prosperity (Part 1) Slouching Away From Prosperity (Part 2) Eleutheros o...

Dateline: 25 November 2008 According to the book, Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables , by Nancy Bubel: ...

[Dateline: 24 November 2008] In Part 1 of this evolving series of essays I wrote about the deleterious effect that our current economic cri...

As long as I live, I will never tire of hearing sermons that declare the total sovereignty of God. And so it is that I find myself greatly b...

Dateline: 23 November 2008 Updated: 8 January 2014 Ida Risser 1920-2013 ( click here to read her obituary ) I subscribe to an...