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How to Pick your Homestead Property: Meet the Neighbors

Are your neighbors growing gardens or lawns? Evaluate My Land series – Homestead Property True story:Susan and her husband, both early ...

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How to Pick Your Homestead Property: Identify Your Goals

Evaluate My Land series – Grow Your Own Food You want to grow your own food. You want your own land. ...

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How the Monastery Decreases the Noise in Your Life

Letter from the Monastery – by Perpend Background context: Perpend and I have talked several times, both on the podcast and ...

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We need a Little More Foxfire Christmas and a Little Less X-Mas (TM)

Take the time for community, instead of the rush. We need candles. We need silence. We need the remarkable quiet of ...

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How I Built a Greenhouse from Recycled Windows

Extend your growing season with a greenhouse and start new seedlings earlier in the spring The first frost in NE Kansas ...

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The Road to the Monastery – an Update from Perpend

Why is Perpend becoming a monk? Some of you may have wondered what happened to Perpend and so I’ll give you ...