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Dreaming About Going Back to the Land? I Did It. January 27, 2025

In April, my husband and I walked out to the sheep pasture with a .22 rifle.We found the lamb in the three-sided sheep shed, alone. Its mother had moved on by then with her healthy offspring, leaving behind this one, born two days earlier with a rigi...

The Village of Archery Was A Plantation January 02, 2025

“My life on the farm during the Great Depression more nearly resembled farm life fully two thousand years ago than farm life today.” – Jimmy CarterWe know that social change occurs glacially, and that the victories discussed in textbooks represent ra...