RADICAL GARDENING: Growing Food Like Your Life Depends On It
In 1720, the average North American colonist and Native American fed themselves. Most people either farmed, maintained a vast garden, or...
RURAL AMERICA REBOOT
The Outhouse Capital of the World, for the multitudes who wish to know, is Elk Falls, Kansas. The tiny community of 100 souls also calls...
TO BUILD AN EARTHSHIP FOR MY GRANDDAUGHTER
In rural Nebraska, it’s 10 degrees below zero and the Great Plains winds are roaring at 50 mph. Russell Fitch walks from his kitchen...
THE YEARS WITHOUT SUMMER
2019 proving cold enough for you? You ain’t seen nothin’. It’s the bitter spring of 1817 and a mass exodus is underway from New England....
REFUGIA: CREATE A SAFEHOUSE FOR THE WILD THINGS
In the old pasture, three piles of brush are heaped high. They’ll stay there all winter, all summer. Snow will bury them. Vines will run...
EAT-FREE-OR-DIE MIRACLE MACHINES
It is not everyday that you stand in awe of spinach. I did and lived to tell the tale of the spinach plant from hell. The plant changed...
CHICKENS SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH
It’s Chicken McNuggets all day, every day, at MacDonald’s. It won’t be that way for long, Bucko. Get ‘em while they last. For by the end...
SETTING THE YELLOWSTONE TRAP
Yellowstone breathes. The national park rises and falls as one’s chest expands and contracts as lungs inflate and deflate. The land ever...
LAST LETTER TO MY GREAT GRANDCHILDREN
I must tell you this, young ones, on the eve of the fourth decade of this century. You will need an island within an island in the coming...
GHOSTS OF THE FIRST CIVILIZATION
We live within humanity’s Second Civilization, one that we have been taught is the very first on the planet and has its earliest roots in...
