
Wood Stove Primer: Find Your Best Heating Bet
Get grounded in the basics of choosing a wood stove for your home. Read up on the three types of wood heaters, and choose the best for your needs.

Get grounded in the basics of choosing a wood stove for your home. Read up on the three types of wood heaters, and choose the best for your needs.

Hang-drying not only will you save money on your power bill, you’ll also spend less replacing your wardrobe.
You know the culprits. Small and seemingly benign with their harmless fluttery wings, clothing moths can wreak havoc on a wardrobe before you even realize what you’re up against. Not even bedding, flooring or curtains are safe.

I have loved ducks for as long as I can remember. I have WANTED ducks for as long as I can remember. Once we got our homestead, I worked on Norm for a very long time to allow me to get ducks.

There are things we don’t identify as stupid until after we’ve done them. We blindly act with no idea that disaster is approaching us at warp speed. I learned this on a humid, mid-August day in 1946.

We live out in West Cavan near the Northern Ireland border. Because of the thirty years of troubles this area became depopulated of humans but the wildlife really moved in…

A wringer washer gets clothes clean in a minimum of time, using a minimum of water and a minimum of detergent. You can do a whole family’s laundry in one morning per week, and not even think about it for another week. It gets grungy clothes clean without having to use spot cleaners or pre-washes or soaks or whatever.

Here at Land’s End in Short Beach we are busily winding up the years work trying to stay ahead of winter! The past
Here at Ash Lane farm, we don’t have many animals to care for. We have about fifteen chickens at the moment and two

Have I ever mentioned that we call our place “Sagging Acres”? The fences are sagging, the barn roof is sagging, the horse’s back

Classic Cowboy Rolls with Cinnamon Honey Butter

Shopping the Old-Fashioned Way with Mrs. Claus at Lehman’s

Roasted Pumpkin Soup and Pumpkin-Shaped Sourdough Loaves Recipe

Winter Beekeeping Tips: How to Help Your Hive Thrive All Season

Multiply Your Houseplants: A Beginner’s Guide to Propagation

The Ultimate Multi-Purpose Tool: A Baker’s Choice Wood Cookstove