Look, it’s pretty simple.
It is certainly not Congress that keeps this nation together and rolling… no, not the President. No figureheads or leaders can make the machine run – that is the responsibility of every person. There are some who believe that this nation is held together by the police, but there are simply not enough of them [...]
Rejected: Minimal Amount
In the process of writing my second book, some articles/chapters don’t make the cut. I figured I’d post these rough first-drafts here instead of just throwing them away. This is the first time I’m typing this on a computer – up until now, this was handwritten. Read more about my second book here, and you [...]
The Death of Growing Freedom
Well, it looks like my old blog “Growing Freedom” is dead. Apparently upgrading to the latest version of WordPress without backing things up is a bad idea. By all accounts my content is gone, even if whatever “Internal Server Error” sorts itself out. I suppose I should be upset – I put a good chunk [...]
American Farmer (GF)
[This is one of my posts from Growing Freedom, my old blog on the trials of trying to start your own sustainable garden/mini-farm with almost no personal experience. This was originally posted on Apr 27, 2009] from “How To Grow More Vegetables” – “One mini-farmer may be able to net $20,000 to $40,000+ a year [...]
Deer Fence #3 (GF) (Video)
This is one of my vlog posts from Growing Freedom, my old blog on the trials of trying to start your own sustainable garden/mini-farm with almost no personal experience. As implied, this is the third video in a series in which I desperately try to keep animals from eating my garden. I estimate, despite the fences [...]
Radish Harvest: Final Payback (GF) (Video)
This is one of my vlog posts from Growing Freedom, my old blog on the trials of trying to start your own sustainable garden/mini-farm with almost no personal experience. Trying to see a return on my money and time – We might not have made much, but we had bags and bags of radishes at [...]
Django’s Garden (GF) (Video)
This is one of my vlog posts from Growing Freedom, my old blog on the trials of trying to start your own sustainable garden/mini-farm with almost no personal experience. Let’s just say that this isn’t Iowa Soil so much as Iowa Compacted Clay. It’s like trying to dig wet but setting cement. As you can [...]
