Home On The Farm

Daniel S. Bietz was born in 1878 in the Ukraine. He immigrated to North Dakota with his parents when he was fifteen. He married Christina Unterseher. She and her family were also immigrants from the Ukraine. Daniel, Christina and their nine children lived on a 640-acre farm called the Happy Home Farm. It was located 75 miles south of the Canadian border and 9 miles southeast of Bowden, North Dakota. The family became Seventh-day Adventists. The children attended church schools and one of the sons became a pastor. This is an account of the family's history and life on the farm.

"Conservation of time an energy is obviously one of the problems of the housekeeper. Time and strength may be saved in two ways, first by taking thought as to the way one uses strength, and second by making use of labor-saving equipment. This may easily make the difference between a tired, overworked housekeeper and one who has some time and energy left for reading and recreation after the days work is done. Home convenience have already been installed in several thousand country homes under the direction of State and county home demonstration agents. This phase of demonstration work has not only effected a real saving in the work of the home, but it is helping the farm woman to get a greater amount of happiness out of her daily tasks. The household conveniences described in this bulletin have been selected because they may be made at a moderate cost by anybody a few simple tools and the ability to use them. Their use also yields a large return in comfort, economy, and sanitation. Valuable suggestions have been secured form State publications and county home demonstration agents." -- p. 2

From New York style icon and fashion insider Amanda Brooks, a charming and inspiring meditation on life in her newly adopted home, a farm in the English countryside. In search of a quieter, simpler life away from the hustle of the city, style icon and longtime New Yorker Amanda Brooks moved with her family in 2012 from New York City to her husband's farm in England. Originally intended to be a yearlong creative sabbatical, Brooks's relocation became permanent as she discovered newfound personal and professional freedom, told here through a year's changing seasons. Creatively inspiring, warm and witty, and brimming with delicious recipes and entertaining how-tos, Farm from Home is a chronicle of the joys and challenges of a more focused way of living. For anyone who has longed for an escape from their hectic schedule, whether for a week, a year, or a lifetime, Brooks shares the unexpected satisfaction of slowing down, reconnecting with nature, and making the most of each day.

Create your own farm in your garden with tips on growing, harvesting and eating your own produce. Nicki Trench has created her own garden farm from scratch, and now shares with you everything there is to know about growing vegetables, fruit and herbs, including making your own compost, growing in raised beds and protecting your crops from pests and disease. Nicki also explains how to rear chickens for eggs and bees for honey, and gives advice on keeping goats and pigs. The benefits of creating your garden farm are not just economic – the energy once obsessively expended on the exercise bike can now be channelled more productively by digging the vegetable patch, turning the compost or cleaning out the hen coop. Communities are reappearing over garden fences as neighbours share their harvest of courgette, spinach and eggs. Whatever you choose to grow or rear on your garden farm, this book offers a taste of the good life that is easy, satisfying and inexpensive to achieve.

Turn the doom and gloom into a better, more enjoyable way of living. Want to eat better, save money, work those muscles without the treadmill, know where your food comes from? This could be the new, recession-proof you! Five years ago Michael Kelly chucked in the corporate life to try his hand at 'the good life'. It's been the most rewarding thing he has ever done – and you could do it too. Make your back (or front) garden work for you; or maybe an allotment? Based on his own, sometimes hilarious experiences, Michael shares what he's learned, taking us through the year on his small home farm. Included: What to grow and when. What's worth it? What's not? Hens and pigs – the ups and downs Cooking and storing your bounty The health benefits – physical and mental Linking up with others - food swapping and markets, and the return of the meitheal