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 We’re bracing for yet another winter storm here in NY.  Still, our thoughts are of spring.  After a weekend spent harvesting honey, and visiting a commercial maple sugar farm, we are settling in, and preparing for the growing season ahead. If you haven’t got your gardening tools ready for this spring, check out some of

 Celebrate spring with a little fun this year. These egg heads are easy and fun to make and add a little green to your table or window sill.  They’re simple to make with only grass seed, soil, and of course fresh eggs, and it only takes about 10 days to sprout a head of hair.

Last week I shared some thoughts on Doing Less by Doing More.  It was one of those posts that gets written because I’m thinking through something and reflecting on our own homesteading journey.  As people began responding and sharing their own comments, I was struck by a wonderful point: modern homesteading may be all about

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Today I want to share a little project that is very near and dear to my heart.  Over the last several months I have collaborated with 11 fellow writers, gardeners and cooks to create a community Farm to Table Book that I will be sharing here next week.  I am a firm believer that the

If you are at all engaged in the modern homesteading movement, you likely have a whole list of things you would like to try: animals you want to get, crops you want to plant, and skills you want to learn.  While it is easy to get on the roller coaster of doing more, in reality,