Heritage of the Past at Home in the Present
"Hen pecked" and many other Chicken Sayings
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Homestead Homemaking Blog 
Wherein I reveal the joys and trials of the Good Life in the country.
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“I would always rather be happy than dignified.” ~ Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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Thrifty Country Decorating (Or From Boxer Shorts to Country Quilt)
The Country Look —our favorite of all the home decorating genre, is also the style that can be achieved easily and frugally. Read more...
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Raising Ducks
Only city slickers say, "Eeww" to duck eggs. More....
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Scrap Quilt
Here's how I made a darling baby quilt for only $1.50. More ...
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Heirloom Seeds
Hybrid variety fruits, grains and vegetables often have sterile seeds that do not reproduce themselves. They are like mules, which are a hybrid of a donkey and a horse. All male mules are sterile and most females are. It’s the same with the typical seeds you buy from the nursery or grocery store. They are hybrids. The seeds cannot be saved and provide no future sustainability in the event of a major food crisis. Remember the potato famine of the 1840’s?
The seeds most available to us are not heirloom and open-pollinated seeds and they don’t respond the same way in the soil. Hybrid seed is also known as "high response" seed. This is because these seeds require fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides and lots of water to achieve their high yields. Read more...
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I’ve read that the majority of cattle caretakers (herdspeople we might say) are—get this - WOMEN. It’s not just the men out there getting pushed and smashed and stepped on by the 1,200 pound beasts. So let’s cowgirl up and learn something about these marvelous manageable minis.
Some say you can grow twice as much beef for the cost with miniature cattle. Read more...
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by Richard Fahey
