Winter wasn't very hard this year, well at least so far, and even if it gets more normal winter like, there's not much time left. Our bees have done well, and it looks like it might be a great summer ahead.

4-H is a youth organization that can be a great resource for skill-building in our communities. No matter what you do or what your interest, spending time with your local club is a worthy contribution.

How to work with a sawyer when cutting your lumber

How we had to adjust to a smaller home, the isolation and quiet.

Clearly the NACE considers "useless" degrees to be ones in which pay is low and availability of jobs is scarce. However, shouldn't measuring the usefulness of an education take into account the actual benefits bestowed upon the person doing the study

"Green," sustainable homes that deliver low cost of ownership.

Things you can do to prevent fire damage to your home from an external source.

Cam shares the "joys" of a living in a house with a metal roof.

Sauerkraut is an effective and delicious way to store cabbage and add something "fresh" to the winter months

Monsanto, the world's largest producer of genetically modified seeds and the toxic herbicides used to drench them, is calling itself a supporter of sustainability. You're kidding, right?

We settle in for a long winter's work.

A drug fed to an estimated 80 percent of pigs in the U.S. has sickened or killed more than any other livestock drug on the market. A U.S. Supreme Court vote struck down a law to keep such "downer" animals out of the food supply.

You can easily make homemade mozzarella in 30 minutes or less!

An introduction from a goat-crazy Oregonian.

Comparing a covenant community against living rural without covenants.

Our experiments with an Alaskan small log mill attached to our chainsaw had variable results making planks from downed trees.

The new sub-compact tractor line offers "max performance, versatility and value."

Kidding is quite a process! This blog covers the very first signs of impending birth.

Companies launch demonstration site to illustrate the consumer and utility benefits of a BMW electric vehicle in a Smart Energy Home powered by Tendril Connect(TM) cloud platform.

Rancho Cappuccino is what we call our farm, 50 acres of tallgrass prairie a few miles outside Lawrence, Kansas. Farming is the reflection of our value system. Rancho Cappuccino is the vessel for our lives.