Finding a role in my family’s small dairy operation is quite literally the oldest goal I can recall from my...
Spring Day Blustery breezes, sunshine and sudden shower Banish hoary-handed winter from the land. Burgeoning buds and lancing leaves appear,...
Lately the thought of homesteading and dreams has been on my mind. I’m part of an online group of homesteaders...
Two creeks converged in a field on the west end of our farm. It was a three-cornered patch with the...
Crossing Places At the crossing places when the river is still and ghosts untangle themselves from the trees you can...
All day they mumble in a clump outside the hive. I water the days of an unexpected life. I fill...
It was the fourth of July weekend and Doug Edwards and Josh Adkins from Franklin Illinois had set up a...
A story from rural Kenya. From the Becoming Erick Collection. Edited by Poppy Johnson. A Mother’s Manual Dreamily he watched,...
“It’s not something we have to create, it’s something we already have. We have to teach people why blue tarps...
We’d passed Neary’s millions of times. It was about halfway between me and Tobin’s place outside our village. We’d often...
Nana had loved Mike for years. There was something of the earth about the man. He owned land but the...
THAT GERTRUDE COW for Annie the Herdswoman It was below freezing in the milking parlor. The freshly hosed down cement...