Entry #63 – A great Adventure
This excerpt was taken from the video series we have recently completed on “Small Footprint Big Handprint”. As soon as I saw it I wanted to post it for you [...]
Entry #62 – The first seeds of Spring
Nancy & Lilly plant the first seeds of Spring This year Nancy prepared a calendar dedicated to getting our garden [...]
Entry #61 – Constructing free-stacked mortar-less rock walls
Sometimes I think my dad and I have a little Inca blood in us. We both love building rock retaining walls and between the two of us have built thousands [...]
Entry #60 – Homesteading now & then – Sustainability when it was a necessary way of life
I love American history, especially when it comes to the development of the west. I know the story of Lewis and Clark in detail and can tell it like a [...]
Entry #59 – The chickens have finally come home to roost
One of my goals for this past winter has been to complete our new chicken coop before the end of March. Most commercial chicken growers here in Idaho [...]
Entry #58 – ‘Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without’
Last Sunday the Idaho Statesman printed a story by Chris Butler on their front page highlighting people who lived through the Great Depression. It was really an enlightening article that [...]
Entry #57 – Sunday’s lesson – A horse in harness
Using Sunday to snake out firewood in 1975 Nancy & Hope riding Sunday when she was in her 30's Sunday's daughter Monday still going strong [...]
Entry #56 – A Sustainable vision for a sustainable life
Tri & Nancy with old dog Blue - 1970 Tri & Nancy @ Timber Butte 2009 Nancy & Brook at the cookstove - 1980 [...]
Entry #55 – The Biblical mandate for Christian involvement in an unsustainable world in crisis
Nancy loving kids in Zambia, Africa What I am about to state seems indisputably clear to me as a Bible believing and Bible practicing Christian. After spending the [...]
Entry #54 – How I learned to build Chicken Coops like Fort Knox
Kate on her horse Rebecca Today I have completed the fifth and final chicken coop of my lifelong chicken house building [...]
Entry #53 – Vineyard College of Mission @ Timber Butte
Students built 300 feet of fence in two hours A sustainable life is purpose driven The decisions a person makes about [...]
Entry #52 – Explaining the vision of RE:FORM
After folks go through our new DVD series based on the book ‘Small Footprint, Big Handprint’ they are not only challenged to simplify their own lives, but [...]
Entry #51 – Holding the deer at bay
Building a deer proof fence around the garden plot Lilly spots deer passing by the livingroom window One morning last fall I was [...]
Entry #50 – Recapturing the Biblical Mandate for Creation Care
In the 60s I was a student on a university campus along with thousands of other baby boomers. Everything was in cultural flux and our [...]
Entry #49 – Building a pole barn
I’ve built three pole barns in my life and every one I have said would be my last. This time I mean it – the barn I have built here [...]
Entry #48 – Discovering the Creator in the midst of creation
Raising your children in the isolation and solitude of a remote family farmstead had advantages and challenges. Living without electricity prevented the luxury [...]
Entry #47 – What then shall we do?
Volunteer works in church community garden Canning the summer garden in preparation for winter Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe - click picture for video Our mission director Tim [...]
Entry #46 – Our commission to care for creation
Man and Creation from Vineyard Boise on Vimeo.
Entry #45 – The gift to create
Rand Thompson helps build the new chicken coop One of the greatest gifts, other than life itself, is the gift of creativity. The Bible tells us that [...]
Entry #44 – A sustainable bride – My Valentine’s story
Nancy on our first date in 1969 My 1944 J3 Cub on Hubler Field 20 years later at the same tree Today is February 14th and I can’t help [...]
Entry #43 – Dusty – Sustainability through suffering
One day in 1998 my friend Merrill Cutler called me and announced that he had found the horse I’d been looking for. My old saddle horse Joe had died of [...]
Entry #42 – Touching the past / the reality of the future
Driving my team down a quiet country road gives me a certain peace Every now and then I hitch up a team of horses to a wagon [...]
Entry #41 – Sustainable energy – Not a new thought
Even though Nancy and I lived for the first fourteen years of our married life without being hooked up to a conventional electric grid, we were by no [...]
Entry #40 – Stacking Dutch Ovens
For those of us who are married and feel compelled to live more sustainable lifestyles, we know that having common vision with our spouse is essential if [...]
Entry #39 – Revelation from a lone Bumble Bee
One lone Bumble Bee February arrived today without a trace of warmth or sunshine. In faith we have ordered fruit trees to be delivered sometime in March [...]
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