Latest Articles
Two year-old, Pepper, has surgery to correct an umbilical hernia sustained at birth. Step by step equine surgical procedure with photos!
Update on the events in my life on the mountain.
Build a compost bin and learn from an expert, just how easy it can be to have rich compost for your garden, houseplants and starts.
Preparing your Garden for Planting
Preparing your soil to support a bountiful harvest. Wood ashes are great for cleaning and enriching your garden soil.
Vermiculture or worm farming is getting increasingly more popular with permaculturalists and eco-concious people of the world. Worms can literally save the earth!
Ways in which to turn those unwanted eyesores in your yard, into attractive, practical enhancements for your garden; raised beds--pamper your plants!
Different ways to obtain water in my area. Catching roof runoff and using a cistern. Recycling water to save our precious resources.
Giving up smoking. It's never easy--until one gets so sick, that the body says, "No!" A positive, from a negative--that's what life's all about!
Country Economics--The Barter System
The barter system is alive and thriving in rural communities around the globe, as it has been for thousands of years since the existence of personkind.
The importance of installing your woodstove correctly, with approved stovepipe and triple wall sections. Pinon--the wood NOT to burn; how I learned the hard way! Slow cooking hearty meals on your woodstove.