Tag: History

• Good Neighbors (and Doing Something Right)

  

  If people don’t occasionally walk away from you shaking their heads, you’re doing something wrong. John Gierach When we started looking for a small holding to be our homestead, this property was not our first choice. More than once we saw the listing for it, but we could tell it was going to be a…

  clarkt29

  May 24, 2023

  Homesteading

  Broilers, Chicken Tractor, History, HOAs, John Gierach, Neighbors, Property

• A Place with a History (II)

  This year we harvested a small crop of celery here at the homestead. It was our second attempt at growing celery. Sadly, last year’s crop failed to flourish. However, this year we harvested our own homegrown celery for use in the kitchen. Our decision to grow celery was an homage to a piece of history…

  clarkt29

  July 28, 2022

  Homesteading, Travel

  Bromfield, Celery, History, Machamer, Malabar, Malabar Spinach, Pleasant Valley, Stephen Heyman, The Planter of Modern Life, Yoder

• A Place with a History (I)

  The land where Headwaters Homestead sits became ours just over a year-and-a-half ago. A small cluster of acres nestled at the headwaters of the Tuscarawas River, it provided us both with a sense of space and place of our own. Space in the freedom to move and shape the land as we saw fit. Place…

  clarkt29

  July 26, 2022

  Homesteading

  History, Machamer