Random Acts of Kindness Challenge needs your stories! When it comes to kindness, it’s a win-win situation. The person doing the act of kindness, the receiver of the act of kindness, and the person witnessing

Yesterday's post ended with Stage four. The Age of Affluence Per Sir John Glubb's essay, by this time in the life cycle of empires, historically speaking, they've passed their 'High Noon". This brings

Today all you have to do is turn on your TV or log on to the internet to be bombarded with self-help books, ads, supplements and gimmicks. Everyone is trying to sell you some advice on how to BE BETTER,

I decided to give this a shot with a little downtime I have before afternoon chores. A new life and style... When we decided to move to KY, I never thought I would be on a working farm again.  I grew

Eugenics! If we were ALL ruled by a Philosopher (decentralized cryptocurrency comes to mind) then improving humanity by controlled breeding in order to increase desirable heritable characteristics is not

I can't say I remember too much about what it was like breaking out of that yolky shell and seeing light for the first time. I do remember feeling free, the sensation of air on my fluffy down, and the

I am always so happy to see honey bees in the garden. These were taken using my Canon PowerShot SX60 HS

Steemit HomesteadingChallenge Introduction Welcome to the Steemit #homesteadingchallenge! The goal of this challenge is to unite the Steemit homesteading community with an invigorating contest every

Who Am I I did a terse introductory post the first day I joined steemit. I feel a great need for privacy and thought I had to write something right away, so it was to the point, mentioning those things

The previous day, my neighbour had put his cows into one of our paddocks to graze.  Naughty girls knocked the hose off the trough, and when I noticed it, there was a river running through the paddock

Another exciting adventure from the Wilds of New Hampshire. Second thing is the locals We got to notice the groundhogs more and more often --- for a while. They were tricky creatures, slipping in and out

Welcome back to Part 7 of our $20k Homestead series! In this episode, we cover the installation of our septic system! Hooray for poopers! In case you missed them, links to Parts 1 through 6 are at the

Time and again I find myself talking to the animals, sometimes singing their song. Yes, each has their own song based on my perceived vision of who they are and it makes me happy so I sing their song.

We got a Solar Powered Fake Owl to protect our ripening cherries and I would say it has been a great success! I used a NorPro Cherry Pitter for the first time and it was okay but not great. The suction

Hello and welcome to the Homestead life communities first member announcement post. Before I get started I would like to say that the launch of the community has been delayed due to me getting quite sick

Welcome back to our $20k Homestead series! Links to all previous posts are at the end. This post is all about THE GRID. The Grid The Grid is a part of the Tron system, created by Kevin Flynn... wait...

I started to relay this story on the new Homesteading channel on Slack but during this time, as had been happening all day, the internet kept cutting off so I was not able to finish answering questions.

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This is a picture of a flower from our garden. I did manipulate it with Photoshop, since I was just commenting with @dmcamera about using Photoshop. <> <> <<<>>> <>

This is a problem we have been experiencing for almost 2 weeks now, since we were hit with a powerful lightening and thunder storm...a really powerful storm that actually shook the house. We have called