All I Want to be is a Housewife
As a little girl, all I wanted to be was a housewife. What I dreamed of was being an old-fashion homemaker. I found comfort in programs like Little House on the Prairie and The Walton’s. I idealized June Cleaver from Leave it to Beaver and Aunt Bea from The Andy...
Learn to Become a Producer, Not a Consumer
How to become a Producer, not a Consumer? For us, it means keeping life as simple as possible. It means living as close to the land and being as self-sufficient as we possibly can. It means knowing what we do today is building the foundation for our future, tomorrow....
Simplify Your Life With These 12 Old-Fashion Things
Simplify Your Life … Old-Fashion Style We live in a world of microwaves, electric coffee pots, T.V.’s and cell phones, but that doesn’t mean we have to use everything at our disposal. There are ways to simplify your life to the simpler side of...
Homemade Laundry Detergent Like Your Grandmother Used
Could you do laundry as your great grandmother did? I only have one memory of my great grandmother. It was her standing in an upstairs window watching me play in the yard of my grandmother’s house. I don’t remember talking to her, but I can still see her...
5 Steps to Happy Homemaking
I’m happy being a homemaker I wake up every day thankful God made me a woman and I take my role as a homemaker seriously. I have a real sense of accomplishment and contentment attached to doing the work God put me on this earth to do. Whether you work from...
Hidden away in the Upstate of South Carolina is a little farm where we call home. Surrounded by century-old pecan and oak trees, we live on a 120-year-old homestead. By the grace of God, we were called to restore this 1890 farmhouse along with its barns, gardens and long-forgotten cotton field to its original working farm. Dedicating ourselves to reusing, recycling and making do we are living a very simple life building our backyard farm.