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“Many people in the world have the luxury of having someone breathe down their neck. Homesteaders do not.” That may sound like a funny statement, but it is true. People who choose the homesteading life have no one to blame for their own personal failures but themselves. This sometimes is a hard pill to swallow when […] Continue reading On Self-Direction 
Every spring we are so surprised at how much there is to clean up. The grass is turning green, and soon (probably this week) it will be time to mow. Before we can do that, though, there are leaves, sticks, dead plants, flower beds to clean up, and even a few toys that were left […] Continue reading Thoughts for a Monday Morning 
It has taken a long time for us to call ourselves ‘homesteaders’. The term today seems to carry with it images of people in covered wagons, old men living in the hills, or people who are expert gardeners or that seem to always have all the right knowledge and all the right equipment. There […] Continue reading The Why of Homesteading 
One thing that our living in the country has taught us is to see things differently. When you live out on a farm, you begin to see life and humanity from a unique perspective because logistically speaking, you are your own community. Each farmstead has obstacles to overcome that society has already dealt with […] Continue reading Seeing things differently We get a lot of questions about where we got our name. I thought I would take some time today to answer the most common question we get, and that is: “what’s the secret slice?” The term ‘secret slice’ came about around the year 2009, before we moved back to Iowa for the last time. […] Continue reading What is the Secret Slice? |
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