life
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A few months ago The Wild Hunt shared an interview with a Pagan from Turkey, whose name obviously had to be changed for his or her own safety. While most of us Pagans in the US won’t have to face that level of fear, we still are not the norm or default in our society,
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While all the drama with the truck has been going on, I have still been working on my homestead. Quite by accident, we discovered how to make our own charcoal, which is saving us lots of money. We were cooking in our grill, using small logs of wood from the property. Alex finished cooking the
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There is an old prepper adage that I think is pretty important. “Two is one, one is none.” What this means is that things tend to brake down or get worn out, or even lost or stolen. You need to have redundancy, at least for important things, if you don’t want to go without for
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Good News: after today, I should have internet at my house! Which is great because I have not been able to make it town lately (truck is still broken down. that’s the Bad News). I’m extending the October God of the Month Club, again, into November. So I will still be studying Poseidon, Haides, and
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My childhood was not exactly a happy one, for reasons I’m not going to go into. But I have one bright spot in the memory of that time, something that I had buried away until a few years ago, because I didn’t think I could get that feeling back. When I was (about) 11 or
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Good morning, everyone! I started thinking this post would be just one post on some of different things and events in my life that led me to become a homesteader. But as that post got longer and longer, I realized that it would be best if I split it into a series of posts. There
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So, we bought this land in December of 2015, and started to make trips out here right away. We didn’t move here permanently until March 2016. So we have not spent a full year on the property yet. I think it’s important to not make major decisions about the land until we have been through
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This is a post I’ve wanted to write for a long time. Like many Pagans, I’ve had various altars and shrines throughout the years. Putting altars together is an act of devotion in itself, carefully picking each piece for its symbolic significance as well as its aesthetic qualities. Shrines beautify a home and give you
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Blackberries So, the first few weeks of July, the wild blackberries all over our property ripened. For about 2 weeks, almost every other evening in the last hour before sunset I venture out with a gallon jug with the top cut off (homemade basket, handle left on!) to gather my wild-foraged booty. I lived on
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things that have gone wrong on the Homestead Not everything about homesteading is beautiful and fun. Sometimes there are complications, or problems to deal with. Some of these are relatively mild, several are actually amusing stories, and one so far has been pretty scary. I think it’s important to share these stories, in the hopes
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