Finding Meaning in a Simpler Time Dear Friends at The Biblical Homestead, Your recent blog post on Laura Ingalls Wilder and the grace of living on little stirred something in me I hadn’t felt in quite some time. As I sat with a warm cup …
Living on a Little: What Laura Ingalls and Life Taught Me About Faith and Frugality Senior Homesteading | The Biblical Homestead “We are living on a little, and enjoying it.”— Laura Ingalls Wilder, “Living on a Little,” Missouri Ruralist, 1921 There’s something about Laura’s words …
From the Homestead Table Category: Old-Fashioned Favorites There are days in the kitchen when the scent of something baking pulls more than just your appetite to attention — it pulls your memory. This morning, as I slid a pan of old-fashioned sweet bread into the …
When Wisdom Sat Next Door Sometimes while I’m standing at my kitchen sink, mechanically washing my dishes, my hands soaking in the warmth of the wash water, my thoughts drift back to the 1970s — not to my own life exactly, but to the people …
Cornbread for Cereal – and Other Forgotten Mornings Some mornings at the homestead are nothing short of a time slip. Today, for instance, my youngest padded in from the barn with hay on his sleeves and a grin on his face, asking, “Did you save …
🌿 From Our Gentle Readers: The Year We Canned Hope By Florence M., Ohio Dear Friends, I’ve lived long enough to know that some years leave a deeper mark on the soul than others. For me, that year was 1958—the year I turned thirteen, the …
There’s a certain rhythm to spring on the homestead.It doesn’t arrive all at once.Not here. Not where the winters hold on a little longer, and the ground takes its sweet time waking up. We still have a few mounds of snow lingering in the shadows …
(From the Hearth) The story was passed on to me, not in a book or a museum — but over kitchen tables, worn photo albums, and memories shared with soft smiles. Jim and Marge were already well into their married life by the early 1920s.They …
(Journal from the Homestead) For decades now, we as people have been trying to fill a void that only Jesus can fill. We work harder.We decorate better.We schedule fuller.We perform, and impress, and strive — believing that if we just do enough, have enough, become …
🧹 Sweeping the Floor, Sweeping the Heart (Scripture in the Ordinary) There’s something about sweeping that has never lost its place in daily life. It’s one of the oldest tasks there is—gathering the dust, brushing away the crumbs, clearing the path with nothing but a …