Did you ever hear the story about the starving man who walked into a village and no one would give him anything to eat? He asked several people but times were hard and no one had extra to give him so he set up his pot and got some water from the well. After he [...]
We live well on under $1000 in income per month. We live fairly well although rather simply. As I write this, I know there are going to be people who don’t believe it’s possible. There will be others whose mortgage payments will be more than we make. Still there will also be those who will [...]
In order to get the best head start on gardening this year, I am going to be starting seeds indoors. Many of the vegetable plants do well started inside where you can baby the young plants and then transplanted into the garden when the ground is warm enough. I am trying to decide which seed [...]
I know that I haven’t been posting a lot over the last few weeks but the Homestead here has been growing and as it grows my outside hours get longer and longer. Our living expenses here are not very high but we pay the difference in hard work and time. Our wood furnace is merrily [...]
by eam31 It’s January and in most places it’s cold and snowy. It hardly seems the time to be thinking about gardening, however, this is the time to start planning your garden. Good planning now means that you might have vegetables earlier in the year. Now is the time to order seed catalogs, plan what [...]
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by S.C. Axman I don’t have health insurance. It is a constant worry that one of us will get hurt or ill and we will not be able to get treatment. I have looked into different individual plans but haven’t been able to find one that we can afford yet. I am not advocating being [...]
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It’s Christmas time and I wanted to give my readers a special gift. I know that it’s a bit cold and wintery to be thinking about a garden but it’s my favorite way to beat the winter blues. I start thinking about what I want to grow in the garden and searching seed catalogs in [...]
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No matter how much we love Christmas and the holiday season, there is always some amount of stress involved. When you are struggling financially this stress can grow to enormous proportions. Worrying about buying everyone a gift or giving everyone a happy holiday season can lead to busted budgets and credit card debt. I don’t [...]
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Several weeks ago, I wrote an article on Winter Vegetables and collard greens were included. Collards are a new experience for me both in cooking and eating. Until I moved to this area, I had never tried collards and expected that I would not like them. Amazingly enough when I tried them, I LOVED them. [...]
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Yesterday marked the start of the 2008 Holiday season. Black Friday got off to a horrifying start with 3 deaths and at least 4 other injuries. I have never been one to shop on Black Friday but I am beginning to believe that we need to change the tradition. This is the second year in [...]
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