The Self-Reliant Homestead: June 2015

19 June 2015

Check out the latest issue of Backwoods Home Magazine!

Friends, I've been writing for Backwoods Home Magazine for, well, since they and I were a lot younger! They've been kind enough to publish dozens and dozens of my articles over the years. That writing was the impetus for compiling, editing, expanding, and adding to create the book "The Self-Reliant Homestead".

In their latest issue, they have printed an article I recently submitted on the building of our off-grid cabin! I am also working on an additional installment or two on completing the cabin interior, and on the electrical / heating / water set up that is underway. I hope you will check out that great magazine. It's been around for a long time, with good reason.

Find them at www.backwoodshome.com . Of course, I encourage you to subscribe!

Notable Words

On August 23, 1785 THOMAS JEFFERSON, our Founding Father and an avid farmer, stated to John Jay, "Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bands. As long, therefore, as they can find employment in this line, I would not convert them into mariners, artisans, or anything else."

"Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. Where tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization." - Daniel Webster

I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries, as long as they are chiefly agricultural. - Thomas Jefferson