Could you do a good job subsistence farming on just an acre or two of land? Yes, and more land would give you more flexibility. It would also reduce the money you must spend off-site for things like feed ...
Read more »What kid growing up in the south didn’t at some point get offered a native persimmon? It looks for all the world like it will taste delightful, then turns your mouth inside out with an astringency ...
Read more »You won’t save money installing your wood stove. For our professional installation, we paid about as much as we would have paid for a heat pump. But aside from a little gasoline for the chain saw ...
Read more »I’m way late in telling you about the injury to my knee. I posted about it in the little Blogspot blog we created and then forgot to post it on the real blog here. So here it is, a day late and a dollar short, all about my busting up […]
From our first conversation about learning to be subsistence farmers, we’ve had a shared fascination about cooking with a solar oven. So it surprised no one when my Christmas gift to Amanda this year was a Global Sun Oven. We were expecting it to be an expensive novelty, but it […]
I posted a few days ago about how we plan to stay warm during the relatively mild central Alabama winter. This post is more specifically focused on our cutting, splitting, and storage of firewood.
Amanda and I head down to Friendship today. We will work this afternoon and most of the day tomorrow before heading back up to Birmingham. We know it’s extravagant to drive 1 1/2 tons of vehicle and passengers 240 miles round trip so two people can put in maybe 11 […]
Amanda and I had to miss the Southern SAWG (Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group) meeting in Chattanooga this year, and we regret that. I regret it more after reading this morning the keynote address to the conference from John Ikerd. He stated in clear and articulate language what many of […]
Amanda got a Global Sun Oven for Christmas. I say that not because this post is about her oven (we’ll do that later when we have pics), but because the Sun Oven was the reason we went to Target in Montgomery a couple of weeks ago to buy a frozen […]
It’s becoming increasingly clear to those who care that the world’s flow of crude oil has already peaked. From now on, even as we humans continue seeding the world with more and more hungry babies, and even as we continue to dream that things are going to get back to […]
This past week I took a jar of our homemade muscadine jam to our son Joe and his wife Michelle in California. Everybody seemed to really enjoy it. Lee and I enjoy it too, and I am convinced that we should make a lot more of it next year. We […]
We live now in a 2300 sq. ft. house. This summer we will be moving to a 600 sq. ft. apartment in our pole barn. How on earth are we going to manage this?
We’ve posted a new page on the main site about how all our efforts so far to deal with catastrophic climate change have been futile. As are many of us, we’re digesting the global ramifications of what appears to be an inevitable and pernicious change in our global climate, and […]
