Barbara Bamberger-Scott

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Buddhist Economics: It Makes More Than Cents

Who could imagine that young people, charmed by notions of small-scale farming,…

Prepping: Not Just for Preppers, Anymore

Maybe it’s just me, but for a long while, I was leery…

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The Bear Facts: Teddy’s Story

Not long ago, on a summer jaunt to the northern border of…

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How Does a House Become a Homestead? A Visit to Soaring Eagle Farm

“This is the Yadkin Valley.  The wind never stops blowing.  That’s why…

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Shelter from the Machine: Homesteaders in the Age of Capitalism by Jason G. Strange – A Review

Seen within, and from, a broader perspective, modern homesteaders have much in…

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Naked Gardening Exposed!

By now you’ve probably seen the Internet hoopla for World Naked Gardening…

Will’s Good Store

There weren’t many thrift shops around when I was growing up.  There…

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Locavores: Messages from The Sleeping Prophet, Edgar Cayce

You may be about to learn two new words (I did). “Locavore”…

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Medical Folkways in America – Part Two: What’s in Your Bottle?

In Medical Folkways in America – Part One: Maggots, Hairballs, and Eels, we…

How the Outhouse Went In: Part Two of The Poo Papers

As we learned in "The Other Little House: The Poo Papers, Part…

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You Say “Tomato”; I Say “All Right!”

  Three years ago, my husband decided to start growing an aphrodisiac…

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