Written By Nate. In Personal Stories, Random

It’s been a tough couple of weeks around the half-acre homestead, especially after getting word of the end of my employment.  Homestead Hottie and I have been itching to get our Darling Daughter out of the house and to hit the road to parts unknown for awhile now and the current situation has only made

Written By Nate. In Food, Gardening, Green Living, Homemade, Recipes

Over the last few years we’ve become increasingly better at storing and saving produce we grew at home and even stuff we bought while it was in season.  Surprisingly we ended up with about a dozen lemon cucumber plants this year that in a flurry of growth, took over much of the backyard.  We’ve had

Written By Nate. In Corporate America, Daily Life, Finances, Food, Green Living, Household, Midwest, Personal Stories, Politics, Random, Self-sufficiency, Sustainability, Sustainable living, Work

Termination seems like such a dirty word.  The societal stigma attached to it is enough to make you feel vile; rolled in the dregs of society and tossed out into the street for all to see and smell.  You, left to feel like nothing more than an offense to the olfactory and beyond.  Why is

Written By Nate. In Corporate America, Food, Green Living, Politics

I just took action by submitting a letter of concern to the USDA regarding their current consideration of implementing some long-overdue rules that would make markets fairer for poultry and livestock farmers.  Big agribusiness is trying to fight back of course, preventing the new rules from ever passing.  If you’d like to help out the

Written By Nate. In Daily Life, Food, Gardening, Green Living, Indiana, Midwest, Sustainable living

Do you have a ton of extra veggies in your garden right now?  Why not trade them?  We stumbled across a great  website the other idea called Veggie Trader.  You can sign up, post what you have a lot of and what you’d like to trade for and then wait for the matchmaking to happen.
Unfortunately

Written By Nate. In Cooking, Food, Green Living, Recipes

We are now getting ready to wrap up our second month as members of a local meat CSA through Stonewall Farms and it has been an adventure.  We purchased a family share of meat for an entire year.  Under the plan, we end up receiving 20 pounds of meat (beef, chicken, pork or lamb) in

Written By Nate. In Uncategorized

Have you ever had a rogue plant grow out of your compost pile?  I have several rogue plants that have sprouted through the air vents in our composter including squashes and tomato plants.  Take a look at the rogue composter pumpkin that’s currently taking over the fence and now setting fruit.  I guess that’s some