Embarking on the journey of creating silvopasture on your homestead is a rewarding endeavor, but it comes with its unique set of challenges and valuable lessons. In this blog post, we'll delve into the lessons we've learned firsthand in our recent podcast series documenting the silvopasture developm...

Welcome to our corner of the world, where nature's wonders are our greatest teachers. In this blog post, we're embarking on a delightful journey into the heart of foraging, homesteading, and the artistry of seed saving. Join us as we explore the rich tapestry of flavors, sustainable living, and the ...

Wow. That's a lot. 

So don't do it all. Ever. Ask for help, do it bit by bit. 

Modern culture is 'on-demand'. Bingey, indulgent and generally overfed. We are an all or none, immediate gratification kind of people. But...that's why we are crashing from issues like Adrenal Fatigue, any number of inf...

Adrenal Fatigue (Part 3) (what I started doing: lifestyle)

I love the metaphor of cleaning. There’s something about it we dread, but then you start doing it and it’s hard to put the sponge away–everywhere you look there’s something that could use just a bit of a touch-up. And how nice it feels to l...

Adrenal Fatigue (Part 2) (what I quit doing)

So, what did I quit doing to improve my adrenal fatigue? So many things, but nothing was all at once or dramatic. It was a little thing here, and another there. Really, it has been a great re-evaluation of what is serving me and what is not. I’ll walk mo...

Adrenal Fatigue (Part 1) 

a 4 part deep-dive into my on-going efforts to heal my Adrenals.

If you’re like me, this term ‘Adrenal Fatigue’ has been popping up in my belly (yes, my belly, it’s where most my good ideas come from) for almost a decade. My naturopath officially diagnosed me with and gui...

• My hay was bad.
• That the broomsedge was going to take over my whole field
• That I needed to p...

“The best marketers are farmers, not hunters. Plant, tend, plow, fertilize, weed, repeat. Let someone else race around after shiny objects.”
― Seth Godin, This Is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn to See

“If you can bring someone belonging, connection, peace of mind, status, or one of the o...

Have you noticed? There's a migration happening right now, from the desk chair to the garden bed. From the e-business to the dirty fingernails, from the fast-paced hustle of the corporate world to the demands of crafting a truly nourishing home base. From reliance to resilience.

It's about time.

A pig has a plow on the end of its nose because it does meaningful work with it. It is built to dig and create soil disturbance, something it can't do in a concentrated feeding environment. The omnivore has historically been a salvage operation for food scraps around the homestead. - Joel Salatin

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity - Albert Einstein

In a way, the most morally troubling thing about killing chickens is that after a while it is no longer morally troubling.
- Michael Pollan

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses. - Malcom X

There is no way that you can have a decent life as a man if you aren't awake and aware every moment. Show up for your own life. Don't pass your days in a stupor, content to swallow whatever watery ideas modern society may bottle feed you through the media, satisfied to slumber through life in an ins...

“The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.” – Abraham Lincoln

What is a homesteader?
After spending a few days with about 5,000 homesteaders it's had me really trying to define what a homesteader is.

Bart and Erica had the question t...

"Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath

In this week's podcast, we are talking about Smita one more time. There's so much to talk about and think about. But really what we are seeing is a gradual...

Did you know that most homesteads fail in 6 years?

two years of "honeymoon"

Two years of trying to fix everything that's broken

one year of giving up

one year to sell it.

When you think about your homestead if you're like me you look at what's working and what's not working. You look at what you can see ...

"Time and space are interrelated. To overlook either of them is to be partially blind. What we plead against is man’s unconditional surrender to space, his enslavement to things. We must not forget that it is not a thing that lends significance to a moment; it is the moment that lends significance t...