One of my annual routines is what I call “cleaning off the desk” and I usually get it done between Christmas and New Year’s.  So today I’m deeply imbedded in finding hidden papers, neglected letters to answer, and everything that got put off during the hectic time of the year…

Mom turned 100 Dec. 11 and we had a birthday celebration for long-time friends and neighbors at a local bed and breakfast on Sunday.  It was quite a doin’s and was wonderful to see folks spanning a lifetime…

“I’m a West Point grad, planned on a military career, but I’ve been in 5 years and am getting out,” said the young man, tears his eyes. ..”

A wonderful young homesteading couple from Indiana visited us over the weekend with a first person disconcerting story…

Before taking off on a farming venture, you need to check some things just like pilots do before going airborne.  Land to Market asked me to do a guest blog for them regarding this topic and it forced me to condense some thoughts I hadn’t put on paper…

I spent the weekend at The Vineyard Church in Wheeling, West Virginia, pastored by

Chris Figaretti, who contacted me in 2014 after reading my book The Marvelous Pigness

of Pigs…

Whenever someone asks me “what’s your weak link?” my standard response is “marketing.”  Lots of folks think somehow I have a magical ability to sell stuff, that people flock to our farm products and we have to beat them off with a stick…

Okay, folks, I’m going to give you one more excerpt from my new book, HOMESTEAD TSUNAMI:  Good for Country, Critters, and Kids…

I’m sharing another little portion of a chapter of my new book HOMESTEAD TSUNAMI:

Good for Country, Critters, and Kids…

I’m thrilled and grateful to announce that we finally have my newest book, HOMESTEAD TSUNAMI:  Good for Country, Critters, and Kids, in hand and ready to go…

Censorship is like food police—you don’t realize what it’s like until it actually happens to you….

It’s 4:30 a.m. and I’m in the airport near Medellin, Colombia waiting for my return flight to Miami, reading the comments to my blog post about the idea of running chickens under coffee trees. I shared it with a bright group of young coffee growers yesterday…