guest post by Stephanie Shepler Harren Different Kinds of Soaps In general there are four different kinds of soaps that can be made. I am going to talk about three of these: melt and pour, hot process, cold process. Cold process is what we use here on the farm. Melt and Pour This process is […]
Lockdown Days 10 & 11: The Power of Regrouping
Call it gathering your thoughts or letting the dust settle, but everyone needs to regroup on a regular basis. Sometimes it is just after a certain number of days going full steam ahead. Sometimes it is at the end of a project. Other times it is because of interruptions out of our control. But it […]
Lockdown Day 7: What Qualifies as a Modern Homestead?
Homesteading versus Subsistence Living What do you think qualifies a modern homestead? I think we all have ideas in our heads about Little House on the Prairie. Or possibly someone living off the grid who has very little contact with the modern world. But are those good representations for a modern homestead? Are they helpful […]
Should You Get a Robot Vacuum Cleaner ?
What makes a machine a robot? I’ve seen the movie I, Robot. I know what the future holds. But right now, I am very pleased to have a little, round robot doing a LOT of my vacuuming around the house! I think what upgrades a machine to robot status is mobility. A robot can be […]
The Weekly Planner that Read My Mind
Do schedules wreak havoc on humanity? Apparently Aldous Huxley, author of A Brave New World, would be appalled by my love of lists and planning. Here in his essay, Time and the Machine, he seems to despair the softer, gentler world of the past. You know, the one wherein people didn’t have easy access to […]
