Archive for the 'Homesteading' Category

Homesteading 201

Sunday, August 22nd, 2010

It may not mean much to anyone else but crowds are cheering and a ticker-tape parade is planned here at Odom’s Idle Acres. Why, you ask? Because we have taken neo-homesteading to a new level (for us). For almost two years now we have been gardening, growing, planting, picking, harvesting, canning, etc. But nearly 4 [...]

What is a farm and what is life like on it?

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

I am an avid reader of Jenna W. and her Cold Antler Farms blog. In fact, it was one of my early introductions to homesteading and following one’s rural dreams. Like her I am a graphic designer and I have to work a day job to keep things rolling around the farm. I digress though. [...]

I Get Knocked Down…but I get up again!

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

I have been staring at this empty block for almost a half hour now. My only company the sound of the overhead fan in my 5th wheel office. I don’t like to write depressing things. I don’t like to add too much of the world’s reality into my own life or writing. But today I [...]