The Deliberate Agrarian

Dateline: 6 May 2015 (click for larger view) The above tool is a short-handled garden weeder I made a few days ago.  The handle i...

Dateline: 5 May 2015 We hear a lot about the 1% these days, with the 1% being the super rich. This 1% happens to be getting richer...

Dateline:4 May 2015 The nice thing about living on a quiet country road is that you can take a walk in the road and have little wor...

Dateline: 3 May 2015 Back in 2013, in Birth of an Orchard, Part 1 , I told of my dream to have a small orchard of standard-size appl...

Dateline: 1 May 2015 You're going to have to bear with me for awhile as I chronicle some of these moments of life with my grands...

Dateline: 30 April 2015 I still have good carrots in my garden bed, nearly 10 months after planting them (they are the last of t...

Dateline: 29 April 2015 We Americans are routinely lied to by our government and the government-controlled mainstream media. Offic...

Dateline: 27 April 2015 click on pictures to see enlarged views In my previous blog post, titled Step-By-Step Raised Garden Beds...

Dateline: 25 April 2015 Children grow up fast. In May of 2012 I posted the above picture to this blog and introduced my six week old ...

Dateline: 25 April 2015 Raised beds in my 2014 garden. (click on pictures to see enlarged views) Most how-to articles or YouTub...

Dateline: 24 April 2015 The above picture comes from the 1914 booklet, Caponizing , by George P. Pilling. Here is an excerpt from th...