Modern Pioneer

In my youth, still young to many at 44, I found that I had a drive that was matched by few. Only true people that had the same passion as I ...

Like anything else, there is different ways to accomplish the same goal. Although what I am about to explain to you is the correct way, it m...

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your ...

As I walk you through making Hardtack, I wanted to show some pictures of the process but I want to tell you a little bit more about this sta...

When I started to plan the second bridge project, I took everything I learned from the first build, and applied it to this project planning....

With the warm coals from the hard wood fire, I sit in my warm house wearing my smiley faced pj bottoms and my traditional plain white T on. ...

As a Homesteader, I find that there are many different challenges to life that are expected and there are the ones that people just don'...

As I sit here this evening, while the cool fall air swirls around the trees to pull off the dead leaves and floats them to the ground, today...

As a child, we as a family would go camping and fishing along the river banks of many rivers in two states. As we traveled or stayed at camp...

After a few years of getting my homestead in order or to a place where I can spend more time on my blog and share my ideas and resources. I ...

Do you remember the story of wrong way Whooten I told you about when I was a child? Basically it was about a duck that was born around our p...

As I walk down my path in life, I find myself coming in contact with some real wonderful people. Some people like Stan, who does a lot of ...

There are a few dishes that sit on my table today as did when I was a child. It is sometimes wonderful how we relate food today and the memo...

Memories of smelling bacon from downstairs always woke me up and made my tummy growl. At home on the farm, it was a frosting designed window...

People talk about the hundred dollar egg when I tell them that I raise chickens for eggs. As you know, there is a lot more to raising chicke...

For most people here you understand how I live and the reasons why I live the way I do. It is a system that balances on many factors, some I...