The Wall Street Journal over the weekend ran a big story on the number of start-ups getting into the food waste business, trying to keep it out of landfills…

Happy New Year, everyone.  I preached Sunday, filling in for our pastor, who was out of town.  As a text, I used probably the most famous Bible story in all history:  David and Goliath…

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…