Although there are many ways to raise money for good causes, charitable races benefit everyone involved. While money is being collected, those who donate also get to participate in a fun, cost-effective event. Whether you are planning a race in the middle of summer or on Thanksgiving day, there are several pieces of advice you …
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4 Tips for Building Your Own Church
Maybe you want to bring religion to an isolated neighborhood. Maybe you just need a new facility to house your growing congregation. Whatever your reasons for building your own church, here are just four ways to raise a new roof for the Lord. 1. Get the Community Involved Most of your flock will be more …
Celebrity After dinner speakers: A great inclusion to corporate events
A popular way of jazzing up an otherwise regular corporate or charity event is the inclusion of after dinner speakers. If you still aren’t aware of who they are, you might as well want to educate yourself about the same and make sure that the next event organized by you is more special than what …
Desperate for Fossil Fuels: King Coal
Now Destroying Mountains Once Merely Raped I spent a lot of time in Eastern Kentucky growing up, it’s where my paternal grandparents, Aunt and cousins lived and where we spent vacations no matter where else in the country (or elsewhere) we were living at the time (Navy brat). I’ve no more relatives there, the last …
Corporate Food & Human Backlash
The current collapse of the world financial system has revealed some structural problems in our national economy that have flourished over a period of decades as corporate interests bought politicians and lobbyists to craft legislation to remove legal roadblocks to mass theft and market manipulation. And despite some changes in the D.C. political landscape, our …
USDA: Sequester Impacts
We homesteaders are among the citizens who pay a good deal of attention to the programs and operations of both state and federal agricultural departments because they can directly affect us (for good or ill). We often make use of our state ag departments’ extension services for education in things like beekeeping, land use, community …
Tiny Houses: Part 3 – Cities Developing Tiny Housing
This blog has examined the new trend toward “micro-housing” in terms of sub-urban and rural settings in the articles Teeny, Tiny Houses in July of 2011, and Tiny Houses: Part 2 in March of 2012. The trend for small, efficiently-designed housing doesn’t look to be letting up any time soon despite a slight bounce-back of …
Fire on the Mountain …Again
I kind of knew that three whole springs without a forest fire along the Norfolk-Southern’s grade over the continental divide was pushing things. Hoped maybe their relatively new-found practice of carefully checking their brake connections BEFORE heading uphill into the ‘loops’ might become a habit. It’s been raining pretty steady, and yesterday it snowed. Not …
Senate Passes Outrageous New Farm Bill
Yep. As of this writing, February 4, 2014, the U.S. Senate has passed a new Farm Bill that has gone way out of its way to exclude any real farmers as well as more than two million people who rely on food stamps to eat, and channels all the supposedly ‘saved’ money back to Big …
Old Crafts as New Careers
I recently met a wise 70 year old man from my hometowm who raises Oxen. He also builds log cabins… using no modern technology. To say that I was impressed is an understatement. On a cold day recently we sat next to a fire in one of the log cabins on his property. The fireplace …