A recent issue of Countryside Magazine had a review of The Woodland Homestead: How to Make Your Land More Productive and Live More Self-Sufficiently in the Woods. We’ve got 2.5 to 3 acres of woods that we’re not sure how to handle. … Continue reading →
A few months ago Chef Ralph emailed me about a book I might like, Just a Couple of Chickens by Corinne Tippett. As with most recommendations from Ralph, this was a good one. The autobiographical book is partly a how-to … Continue reading →
A few weeks ago I started reading The Taking by Dean Koontz. Things have been hectic because of the move. I looked forward to relaxing with a good book. The book is about a couple who live in a house … Continue reading →
The other week I read Made from Scratch: Discovering the Pleasures of a Handmade Life by Jenna Woginrich. It chronicles Jenna’s experiences as she tries to simplify her life and become more self sufficient. It’s an excellent book for anyone … Continue reading →
I’m reading Letters from the Dust Bowl by Caroline Henderson. It’s a compilation of letters and articles written by Caroline Henderson during the dust bowl years. She and her husband worked a homestead in Oklahoma. In addition to putting in … Continue reading →
Wife in the North is a blog that was so popular that Judith O’Reilly, aka “the wife”, was offered a book deal. The blog chronicles Judith’s life as she adjusts from her posh life in London to living in country … Continue reading →
I first became interested in the Dust Bowl when I watched the series Carnivale. That’s where I heard about dust pneumonia. I didn’t know that people got pneumonia from breathing in all the fine grains of dust in the storms. … Continue reading →
I read a few spooky books this month in honor of Halloween. Oddly enough the thing that struck me about them wasn’t anything dealing with the paranormal. The first book I read was Dreamcatcher by Stephen King. It was about … Continue reading →
We were talking about Peg Bracken just last Saturday night. Ruth and Ralph came over for dinner and the subject of cookbooks came up. The Man of the House told them about my insane happiness whenever I found one of Peg … Continue reading →
I just read a copy of The Little House Cookbook: Frontier Foods from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Classic Stories. The book gives recipes for items mentioned in the Little House books such as corn dodgers, molasses-on-snow candy and sour-dough biscuits. It … Continue reading →
