Pastoral Life Step by Step

A PASTORAL LIFE STEP BY STEP: Sharing articles culled from magazines over the course of many years in anticipation of living a self-sustainable life in the country. It isn't self-sustainable but it sure has been fun! I hope you find something useful, interesting or tempting!

Monday, December 14, 2015

Do You Save Seeds? Watch It!



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Labels: Gardening, Seeds

Friday, December 4, 2015

Insect-Resistant Varieties: Tools for Organic Gardeners







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Labels: Gardening, organic

Sunday, November 22, 2015

Equatorial Sundial


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Labels: woodworking

Friday, November 13, 2015

Grow Onions to Keep




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Labels: bulbs, food, Gardening, onions, Vegetables

Friday, November 6, 2015

Making a Birdhouse


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Labels: birds, carpentry, woodworking

Thursday, October 22, 2015

Get the Most From Flower Seeds




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Labels: flowers, Gardening, Seeds

Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Bottom Heat for Faster Sprouting




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Labels: Gardening, seedlings

Friday, October 2, 2015

Edible Wild Plants



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Labels: food, Foraging

Saturday, September 26, 2015

The Fine Points of Frying Fish


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Labels: cooking, fish, food

Saturday, September 12, 2015

Getting Seeds to Germinate




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Labels: Gardening, seedlings, Seeds, Vegetables

Sunday, August 30, 2015

Starting Seeds Under Lights






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Monday, August 17, 2015

Give Your Seeds a Better Start




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Friday, August 7, 2015

Simple Solar Water Heat


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Labels: Home Improvement, solar, water

Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Chicken Coops




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Labels: Chickens, poultry

Sunday, July 19, 2015

Free-Range Chickens




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Labels: Chickens, poultry

Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Build a Pond


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Labels: Ponds

Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Build an Abode for the Birds


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Labels: birds, woodworking

Friday, June 19, 2015

Homemade Brick Hearth





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Labels: bricklaying, Home Improvement

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

How to Install Trimwork





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Saturday, May 30, 2015

Eastern Bluebird


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Labels: birds, bluebird, wildlife

Thursday, May 21, 2015

Wrens


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FYI

These articles are in no particular order ... I'm just working my way down the stack. If I took the time to put them in seasonal order, I'd never get around to it!

The articles can be viewed better by clicking on the photo. If anyone wants a copy of a particular article, let me know and I'll be happy to send you a paper copy.

Articles to Share

We collected these articles before we even moved here ... scouring rural magazines for articles of interest, things to do, build, raise, you name it, we read it! I had actually forgotten about these articles until I found them in the back of a desk drawer recently while looking for other things and it brought back a flood of memories and high hopes. They aren't doing any good in the back of a desk drawer so I'm posting them here in the hopes that someone will get hooked on a new project!

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