Communication is one of the most overlooked areas an emergency preparedness.

Food preservation is a skill that will pay for itself many times over. When planning dinner, instead of arguing over which take-out to...

Local food sources are all around you, but you need to think Fresh, not Packaged.

My grandparents married during the Great Depression. They raised their five children through the Depression and a world war. Money was...

15 Things You Can Do in February to Prep for Your Gardening Year Traditionally, Winter is the time for taking stock of the past year,...

My wife says there are only three seasons in Ohio… Summer. Winter. And Mud. Summer lasts 20% of the year, Winter about 15% and Mud makes...

Our daughter, Laura, has written a great article about buying your first dairy goat. She has owned goats for many years and her family...

As homesteaders/farmers, we are big into “DIY” projects. If we don’t know how, we watch a YouTube video and figure it out. However, pond con

Choosing your first dairy cow is a bit like choosing a husband.I think bringing home Miss Bessie is a lot like that.

In Part 1 of Improving Your Woodlot, I wrote about identifying and killing low quality species, low quality formed trees and diseased and...

Improving Your Woodlot A Master Class Part 1 With the present economic uncertainty what can you do to protect your investments,...

Homesteading on Marginal Land We have lived on our homestead for 16 years. It was rough when we bought it. 500 acres of abandoned strip...

The cold wet weather continues. We had a teaser day of Spring on Monday, but got slammed again on Tuesday. It’s Ohio…. what can we expect? O

As a maple syrup producer, it is time to prepare to tap the trees. We finally got that cold snap and tapping can begin anytime in the next 4