by Pa Mac | Feb 18, 2013 | Country Ways
It use to be that trees felled on farm acreage rarely left that farm. They were used for everything from building the outhouses or fences to just being burnt for the cooking or washing. Wood always has been and probably always will be the most efficient, economical...
by Pa Mac | Jan 30, 2013 | Country Ways
The Lunar Cycles Effects on Farming The moon is nice to look at; but not just nice to look at. It’s been useful ever since Adam figured out (or asked) what to do with it. The first chapter of Genesis spoke of this “lesser light” that’s to “govern” the night, as well...
by Pa Mac | Dec 17, 2012 | Country Ways
My Mama loves Christmas; always has. And it will always be said by us kids that our Mama knows how to keep Christmas well, if anyone alive possesses the knowledge (borrowing language from Mr. Dickens). It cannot be undertaken in just a few words by me to explain why,...
by Pa Mac | Nov 21, 2012 | Country Ways
There’s a lot of work to be done on my embryonic farm and it all begins with taming a troublesome mess of briars, trees, and rocks. But a question occasionally comes to mind to anyone clearing land: How did our pioneer forefathers transform countless acres of...
