Homestead Core Values

Posted on December 14, 2015 by Mark Zeiger

The content you’re looking for is no longer here. We’re finally beginning to shut this blog down, to remove old content.

The essay formerly found here has been incorporated in two of our publications.

This article has been edited into our book, Sacred Coffee: A “Homesteader’s” Paradigm. The book is available in print, as an audiobook, and in several eBook formats. It contains edited, improved, and expanded versions of essays that used to be available for free on this blog, and new material as well. You can learn more about it, and order it here in your preferred format. It is also included in our eBook, More Calories Than Cash: Frugality the Zeiger Homestead Way. You can learn more about it, and order it here.

 

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“Come Darkness, Come Light”

Posted on December 12, 2015 by Mark Zeiger

Less than two weeks away from the Winter Solstice, this hemisphere’s longest night of the year, our Christmas season is pervasive darkness, punctuated by a variety of lights.

We have just more than 6 hours of daylight now. If the sky clouds up, darkness falls even earlier and deeper, particularly here on our homestead, nestled on the east side of Mount Riley’s southern ridge.

I adore the darkness, particularly at Christmas time. As I have pointed out often (perhaps best in Headed Straight Into Darkness) I depend on the darkness of the season to contrast with the lights that we traditionally kindle at this time of year.

This year's lights on the cabin (Photo: Mark A. Zeiger).

This year’s lights on the cabin (Photo: Mark A. Zeiger).

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