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Have a look at this patch of grass. Let me tell you a secret. This ‘patch of grass’ is supposed to be our strawberry patch. It is easy to feel overwhelmed when every day as we look out on what needs done we see things like this. While the good Iowa soil […] Continue reading Cleaning The Strawberry Patch 
“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 
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 |