Because money is hard made and easy spent, when we were about 3 years into our agrarian dream we could only afford a little homestead and not a big rolling farm. G.K. Chesterton claimed that is all I needed.  He also said you need a cow on those 3 acres, which we had on that farm.  Now we have 4-6 cows at a time in milk, and a slightly bigger far...

Many men are finding contentment in the rebellion of homesteading. It's rebellion because it dislodges us from so many machines, saying “no” to being a cog in a wheel. Growing food gets you out of ridiculous tax systems and a consumer-based economy at the same time. The term economy, after all, means “household management”, not how much mon...