The Deliberate Agrarian

I'm blogging "little bits," one each day until the book I'm currently working on is done and handed off to the printer. Ea...

Dateline: 10 January 2009 Every Farm Tells A Story: A Tale of Family Farm Values , by Jerry Apps is a 71-year-old man’s recollection...

In my previous essay here I told you a little about the different books I’ve self-published. In this essay I’ll reveal to the world what a ...

Every so often someone will send me an e-mail asking for my advice about how to self-publish a book. I’ve written and self-published eight ...

Mr. Deshais had sawed through the pigs' skull. The brain cavity opened like the halves of a walnut, revealing an organ not much larger t...

It is snowy and cold here in Moravia, New York, my hometown. Moravia is in Central New York’s Finger Lakes region. I was born in Maine and m...

Scott Terry over at Homesteader Life has posted a link to a very good article by Rev. Brian Abshire. It begins... Evangelical Christianity ...

There were six contestants in the 2008 Whizbang Garden Cart Contest. That is a six hundred percent increase in entries over the 2007 contest...

Here’s an object lesson: Take an egg, hold it aloft, let go, and watch what happens. Last year (2008) will go down in history as the year th...

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 ...