The Indigenous Gourmet

This morning was clear and bright and the kind of blue that seems you are looking all the way into outer space.  Spring is just waking up here and it has been alternatively hot and cold, varying back and forth from 80 degrees in March to below freezing and a several inches of snow at [...]

  http://www.naturalnews.com/035478_freedom_tyranny_philosophy.html     This is perhaps the best article Mike Adams of the NaturalNews.com has ever written!  I too raise chickens and dairy goats, urinate in my garden and have never used drugs, and since I have always lived far out in the mountains, I have watched with disdain the erosion of freedom and [...]

My daughter, age two, can whistle and has been using sentences for at least 6 months.  Today, my goats broke a fence panel down and escaped.  After I got them in, I found myself in the foolish position of holding up the panel, and the goats in, without means to fasten it.  Kate was standing [...]

Image via Wikipedia It has been particularly hot this summer.  Oh sure there was that late freeze, back when my apple trees were all in bloom, that destroyed my fledgling raspberry plants and seriously stunted my baby strawberries, and just generally insured that we would have no fruit on the farm this year.  Add that [...]

Image via Wikipedia I am listening to a northern mockingbird outside in the big maple below the garden, as I have most mornings this summer.  I delight each day in listening to his enthusiastic impressions of all the birds around here and some I can’t even identify.  I have even tried to count them several [...]

This is my first post of any kind in a really long time. My old blog was just getting started when I completely changed my life. I still need to edit my profile as a lot has changed. No longer am I the socially challenged bachelor living deep in the mountains of Penn’s great woods. [...]

This morning my son and I are trying to replant the entire garden that has been destroyed by the deer. The deer here are a mixed blessing; venison is an important part of the local diet, and a part of the beauty of the local landscape. They are fewer here lately, some say due to [...]

  Well, in true backpack fashion, I have decided to move to new digs after all of my firewood is in for the approaching winter, and after all my preparations are complete. My cabin and my woods and my gardens are preparing for the proverbial winter’s nap. My children are happily ensconced in their new [...]

As I sit here in the dark, with just a faint glow lightening the east through the rain, I try to reflect. It is 6am, and I have one kid gone on the school bus and another to get moving shortly. We have a good hot breakfast each day and now I have to cook [...]

As often happens in life, we have suffered a series of setbacks here, and have been unable to post. Rampant development is rapidly destroying much of the rural countryside in western PA, and it seems we are the latest folks to be “developed out”. Without going to great detail, in the last short while we [...]