Archive for January, 2010

Homesteading - Experts believe regional foodsheds would reverse obesity epidemic - Natural News.com

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Experts believe regional foodsheds would reverse obesity epidemic - Natural News.com
(NaturalNews) Early Americana is remembered in part for its legacy of homesteading and family farming where families grew their own fruits and vegetables, raised their own animals for food, and traded their goods locally with neighbors. Today’s

Homes Calendar - Herald Times
Homesteading 101: A Primer for Living off the Land: Sustainable living is more than just a passing trend, but many practitioners lack the practical information on how to successfully live off the land, especially when it comes to raising animals.

Experts believe regional foodsheds would reverse obesity epidemic - Natural News.com
(NaturalNews) Early Americana is remembered in part for its legacy of homesteading and family farming where families grew their own fruits and vegetables, raised their own animals for food, and traded their goods locally with neighbors. Today’s

Homes Calendar - Herald Times
Homesteading 101: A Primer for Living off the Land: Sustainable living is more than just a passing trend, but many practitioners lack the practical information on how to successfully live off the land, especially when it comes to raising animals.

Homesteading - Aarón Rael Sr. leaves a legacy in Questa - Taos News

Monday, January 11th, 2010

Aarón Rael Sr. leaves a legacy in Questa - Taos News
Although the name of his hometown was changed from San Antonio del Río Colorado to Questa a few years before he was born, Aarón Rael Sr., always loved his community. The son of Adonaisa Gómez Rael and José Enrique Rael, he was the oldest of 10

Experts believe regional foodsheds would reverse obesity epidemic - Natural News.com
(NaturalNews) Early Americana is remembered in part for its legacy of homesteading and family farming where families grew their own fruits and vegetables, raised their own animals for food, and traded their goods locally with neighbors. Today’s

Le Mars couple’s daughter claims fame as New Year’s baby - Le Mars Daily Sentinel
(Sentinel photo by Beverly Van Buskirk) Margaret Spies of Merrill has plenty of stories to tell about her life, from homesteading in the Colorado prairie to teaching country school. She turns 100 years old Jan. 14, 2010. [Click to enlarge] Madalyn

How we live now: A shift in the landscape - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Urban homesteading: Whether motivated by environmental politics, the DIY culture or the Slow Food movement, more people are turning backyards over to chickens and bees, harvesting rainwater and preserving homegrown crops. Organizations such as

Homes Calendar - Herald Times
Homesteading 101: A Primer for Living off the Land: Sustainable living is more than just a passing trend, but many practitioners lack the practical information on how to successfully live off the land, especially when it comes to raising animals.

Irene Nelson - Williston Daily Herald
Irene was born on Oct. 25, 1904, the eldest of five children, to John and Emma (Lunden) Snippen. Her birthplace was the first location of Roseglen, as her homesteading parents were the first postmaster and postmistress. When they sold their store in

Photographer captured rise and fall of a Weld structure - The Tribune
For more history, read “Then Fosston Story” section of “Three Coins: Cornish, Osgood and Fosston,” by Dorothy Bolin, 1980, and “Homesteading the Dryland: A History of Northeast Weld County, Colorado,” edited by Bud Wells, 1986 by Curtis

Teamwork saves museum’s artifacts - Omaha World-Herald
LINCOLN — By the time the museum at the Homestead National Monument reopens, visitors should see no trace of a New Year’s Day water main break that splashed and soaked books, artifacts and furniture. Mark Engler, superintendent of the National

Aarón Rael Sr. leaves a legacy in Questa - Taos News
Although the name of his hometown was changed from San Antonio del Río Colorado to Questa a few years before he was born, Aarón Rael Sr., always loved his community. The son of Adonaisa Gómez Rael and José Enrique Rael, he was the oldest of 10

Experts believe regional foodsheds would reverse obesity epidemic - Natural News.com
(NaturalNews) Early Americana is remembered in part for its legacy of homesteading and family farming where families grew their own fruits and vegetables, raised their own animals for food, and traded their goods locally with neighbors. Today’s

Le Mars couple’s daughter claims fame as New Year’s baby - Le Mars Daily Sentinel
(Sentinel photo by Beverly Van Buskirk) Margaret Spies of Merrill has plenty of stories to tell about her life, from homesteading in the Colorado prairie to teaching country school. She turns 100 years old Jan. 14, 2010. [Click to enlarge] Madalyn

How we live now: A shift in the landscape - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Urban homesteading: Whether motivated by environmental politics, the DIY culture or the Slow Food movement, more people are turning backyards over to chickens and bees, harvesting rainwater and preserving homegrown crops. Organizations such as

Homes Calendar - Herald Times
Homesteading 101: A Primer for Living off the Land: Sustainable living is more than just a passing trend, but many practitioners lack the practical information on how to successfully live off the land, especially when it comes to raising animals.

Irene Nelson - Williston Daily Herald
Irene was born on Oct. 25, 1904, the eldest of five children, to John and Emma (Lunden) Snippen. Her birthplace was the first location of Roseglen, as her homesteading parents were the first postmaster and postmistress. When they sold their store in

Photographer captured rise and fall of a Weld structure - The Tribune
For more history, read “Then Fosston Story” section of “Three Coins: Cornish, Osgood and Fosston,” by Dorothy Bolin, 1980, and “Homesteading the Dryland: A History of Northeast Weld County, Colorado,” edited by Bud Wells, 1986 by Curtis

Teamwork saves museum’s artifacts - Omaha World-Herald
LINCOLN — By the time the museum at the Homestead National Monument reopens, visitors should see no trace of a New Year’s Day water main break that splashed and soaked books, artifacts and furniture. Mark Engler, superintendent of the National

Homesteading - Le Mars couple’s daughter claims fame as New Year’s baby - Le Mars Daily Sentinel

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

Le Mars couple’s daughter claims fame as New Year’s baby - Le Mars Daily Sentinel
(Sentinel photo by Beverly Van Buskirk) Margaret Spies of Merrill has plenty of stories to tell about her life, from homesteading in the Colorado prairie to teaching country school. She turns 100 years old Jan. 14, 2010. [Click to enlarge] Madalyn

Colby’s female settlers: Groundbreaking pioneers - Fort Scott Tribune
COLBY — The promise of land attracted many adventurous spirits to Kansas in the 1800s. Melissa Alger was one of them. Alger, a single schoolteacher, journeyed to Thomas County to claim a homestead and to build a future. Alger’s adventure west

Cleanup continues at Homestead National Monument - Beatrice Daily Sun
About 800 artifacts may have been damaged when a water main broke in the Homestead National Monument’s visitors center. Curators were surveying the items over the weekend to determine the extent of the damage. They include ceramic, glass, metal, wood

Wrapping up the first decade of the 2000s - Lebanon Reporter
Lebanon — Well, that certainly was an interesting decade! It was just 10 years ago that many were in mortal fear that computers would not be able to change dates for the new century, and everything as we knew it would cease to exist. People were

Le Mars couple’s daughter claims fame as New Year’s baby - Le Mars Daily Sentinel
(Sentinel photo by Beverly Van Buskirk) Margaret Spies of Merrill has plenty of stories to tell about her life, from homesteading in the Colorado prairie to teaching country school. She turns 100 years old Jan. 14, 2010. [Click to enlarge] Madalyn

Colby’s female settlers: Groundbreaking pioneers - Fort Scott Tribune
COLBY — The promise of land attracted many adventurous spirits to Kansas in the 1800s. Melissa Alger was one of them. Alger, a single schoolteacher, journeyed to Thomas County to claim a homestead and to build a future. Alger’s adventure west

Cleanup continues at Homestead National Monument - Beatrice Daily Sun
About 800 artifacts may have been damaged when a water main broke in the Homestead National Monument’s visitors center. Curators were surveying the items over the weekend to determine the extent of the damage. They include ceramic, glass, metal, wood

Wrapping up the first decade of the 2000s - Lebanon Reporter
Lebanon — Well, that certainly was an interesting decade! It was just 10 years ago that many were in mortal fear that computers would not be able to change dates for the new century, and everything as we knew it would cease to exist. People were

Homesteading - Organic Gardening and Homesteading Tips For a Self-Reliant Lifestyle

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

Organic Gardening and Homesteading Tips For a Self-Reliant Lifestyle
Organic gardening and homesteading tips and techniques to give you freedom and live a self-reliant life today.

Homestead.org: The Homesteader’s Free Library: Learn Homesteading
A place to learn homesteading and build a sane, earth-based lifestyle.

Homesteading
Homesteading - Living off the land. Creative ideas for living home decorating, garden ponds, cottage gardens, and more!

People’s Homesteading Group
People’s Homesteading Group 410 East North Avenue Baltimore, Maryland 21202 Phone: (410) 889-0071 | Fax: (410) 889-0652

Homesteading Tips
Homesteading, country living, rural life, Our homesteading tips. How to and how not to homestead, choosing a property, surviving in the country, utilities, water, electricity

Homesteading books, many at discount prices
Homesteading today is about creating a better lifestyle. Homestead Resources sells homesteading books on gardening, food preservation, livestock, finance, and other rural living

Capital Homesteading for Every Citizen
What if. . . every man, woman and child in America could receive each year through a local bank $3,000 of “interest-free” credit to invest in our nation’s growth and new

Homesteading, a compilation
A compilation of writings, photos, wisdom of 25 years of Homesteading Programs at two farms in Southwest Michigan.

Homesteading Info ::Homesteading::
To make it your ambition and definitely endeavor to live quietly and peacefully, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we charged you, so

Organic Gardening and Homesteading Tips For a Self-Reliant Lifestyle
Organic gardening and homesteading tips and techniques to give you freedom and live a self-reliant life today.

Homestead.org: The Homesteader’s Free Library: Learn Homesteading
A place to learn homesteading and build a sane, earth-based lifestyle.

Homesteading
Homesteading - Living off the land. Creative ideas for living home decorating, garden ponds, cottage gardens, and more!

People’s Homesteading Group
People’s Homesteading Group 410 East North Avenue Baltimore, Maryland 21202 Phone: (410) 889-0071 | Fax: (410) 889-0652

Homesteading Tips
Homesteading, country living, rural life, Our homesteading tips. How to and how not to homestead, choosing a property, surviving in the country, utilities, water, electricity

Homesteading books, many at discount prices
Homesteading today is about creating a better lifestyle. Homestead Resources sells homesteading books on gardening, food preservation, livestock, finance, and other rural living

Capital Homesteading for Every Citizen
What if. . . every man, woman and child in America could receive each year through a local bank $3,000 of “interest-free” credit to invest in our nation’s growth and new

Homesteading, a compilation
A compilation of writings, photos, wisdom of 25 years of Homesteading Programs at two farms in Southwest Michigan.

Homesteading Info ::Homesteading::
To make it your ambition and definitely endeavor to live quietly and peacefully, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we charged you, so