Go And Build How Four Adoptions Led to a Magazine Guest Post, January 24, 2023 Share this:by Marlin, Plain Values What do the Amish, little ones with special needs, two nonprofits, four adoptions, two one-room schoolhouses from the 1800s, and a monthly print magazine have to do with homesteading in 2023? It is the story of our family, and it is a joy to share how… Continue Reading
Bold Christian Writing Lessons from Livestock, Part Three Guest Post, January 21, 2023January 23, 2023 Share this:When the Lion Lies Down with the Bug by David Treebeard Read Part OneRead Part Two The other day I was hauling a couple of cows to the slaughterhouse when a new-model truck with blacked-out windows blazed past me on the left. Big block letters on the rear window read:… Continue Reading
Christian Living Lessons from Livestock, Part Two Guest Post, January 17, 2023January 25, 2023 Share this:To Be or not to Bug by David Treebeard Read Part OneRead Part Three When animals become numbers, human numbers are not far behind. For the past several hundred years since the imaginations of Descartes and other enlighteners permeated our power structures, people have been treated as machines or numbers… Continue Reading
Christian Living The War Against Chaos Guest Post, January 13, 2023January 23, 2023 Share this:by J.Pilgrim I’m typing this out while I’m racked out in the back of my SUV in a Walmart parking lot in a college town, sipping a beer. I was attempting to spend New Year’s Day camping at the homestead, but my fan belt frayed out on the drive and… Continue Reading
Christian Living The Visual Examination Guest Post, January 12, 2023January 23, 2023 Share this:The Art and Science of Watching your Animals by A.L. Bork DVM The squeak of the grass, as it’s pinched between tooth and gum, harmonizes with the slow, baritone hoof beats of the flock advancing across the shadowy hillside. Each individual navigates independently, but pulses forward in unison with the… Continue Reading
Christian Living Cursed Earth Guest Post, October 5, 2022January 23, 2023 Share this:by (J.) Pilgrim Anon I am sitting up on a hillside in a camp chair on the land God has granted me. I am smelling one forest fire and gaze at the skeletons of trees from the last one. My hillside was burnt to the ground back in the 90s,… Continue Reading
Go And Build A Graze of Glory: Why Good Pasture Matters Guest Post, August 5, 2022January 23, 2023 Share this:by David Treebeard IF YOU’RE READING THIS, you’re probably an American that eats meat. If that’s the case, your meat is probably too simple. Or rather, the system that produced your meat is too simple. And this oversimplification causes serious problems for your health and our country’s soils. Want to enjoy truly… Continue Reading
Go And Build One Food to Rule Them All Guest Post, July 11, 2022January 23, 2023 Share this:by David Treebeard There is a quiet storm wreaking havoc in the world of food and farming. Processing plants, warehouses, and refineries are burning down at suspicious rates. Two of the world’s largest producers of wheat (and fertilizer) are currently in a war with no end in sight. Countries like… Continue Reading
Go And Build Christ, “Climate Change,” and True Ecosophia Guest Post, June 25, 2022January 23, 2023 Share this:by David Treebeard As Christians, we know that “climate change” is obviously real. It’s so real that it can devastate entire nations in the span of a week. And the realest part of all is that climate change is anthropogenic: human-caused. But we also know that climate change has nothing to… Continue Reading
Go And Build The State of Meat Guest Post, May 12, 2022January 23, 2023 Share this:– Opportunities for the Parallel Economy by Jesse Dustin, of Heartland Goats If anything has become clear over the last few years it is that certain points of view have become censored, banished, and wiped from our society and our online sphere. While the woke crowd can be as extreme… Continue Reading
Christian Living Putting Down Roots: The XXIst Century Revival of the Catholic Land Movement Guest Post, April 5, 2022January 23, 2023 Share this:by Maggie Zapp | Synergy Central FL Homestead When Fr. McNabb published The Catholic Land Movement pamphlet in 1932, I have no doubt he had some inkling that something wicked this way comes. The Luddite riots first established a formal resistance to the inevitable march of technological progress and in… Continue Reading