Homesteading
Robert Baxley
Get Ready

As many of you know, I have one test for viability of a political solution to any problem. Does it require coercion? If not, I’m listening. If there is a gun required to implement your plan, you are wrong, every time. If it is a good idea, people will do it.

Get Ready
Canning
Robert Baxley
Honey Pickled Golden Beets

This recipe was born of what was popping in the garden. Seasonal cooking really elevates when we allow the ingredients that ripen together to drive the menu.

Honey Pickled Golden Beets
Baking
Robert Baxley
Strawberry Pie

Becoming proficient at growing your own food requires many failures. You can research for years, read all of the books, and listen to all of the podcasts, but nothing Improves your skill like killing things, in the garden. This was my experience with strawberries.

Strawberry Pie
Robert Baxley
Tamal

The nixtamalization of corn is tribal chemistry at its finest.  Etymologically, nixtamal is "ash dough".  The idea is that by cooking dried dent corn in an alkaline solution, you turn it from toxic cardboard into food. 

Tamal

Strawberry Pie

Strawberry Pie

Becoming proficient at growing your own food requires many failures. You can research for years, read all of the books, and listen to all of the podcasts, but nothing Improves your skill like killing things, in the garden. This was my experience with strawberries.

Garden Pests

Garden Pests

The co founder of permaculture, Bill Mollison, is famous for saying, “You don’t have an excess of slugs, you have a deficiency of ducks!” In other words, as you tweak your systems, the addition of certain birds can be a real game changer.