Homesteading, A Compilation

• Linda Olson Pehlke  Land Trust Homesteading Farm  1979.
• Sally Kaufman, excerpts from her diary, 1973.
• Wendy Price: Lambing Updates  Chronological events of a lambing season on a small farm. School of Homesteading, 1976.
• Jon Towne   A perspective.
• Ecology of Mind written for a class at WMU in 1979 by Jon.
• Jim Martin  Land Trust Homesteading Farm, 1978.
• Maynard Kaufman and Barbara Geisler:  Homesteading in the 1990's
• Kate Abrams   Happenings from her home in Vermont. Kate was at the Land Trust Homesteading Farm in 1980.
• Stu Schafer Not only did Stu attend the School of Homesteading in 1976, he was the first instructor in 1978 at the Land Trust Homesteading Farm, and pioneered the notion of university employed homestead instructor on a farmed out junk yard of a thirty six acre farm just donated to newly-formed non-profit Michigan Land Trustees of America.
• Kathy McVay  (formerly Kathy McCrory) Kathy was at the Land Trust Homesteading Farm in 1980.
• Linus Meldrum  School of Homesteading, 1974.
• Tim Johnson  School of Homesteading, 1977.  Tim teaches Agriculture at Indiana Purdue at Fort Wayne, Indiana.
• Proposal for a Homesteading program at WMU 1977 by Maynard Kaufman. This started the ball rolling at the Land Trust Homesteading Farm.
• Land Trust Homesteading Farm advertising brochure, 1983.  The last homesteading class here was in 1984.
• Information about the School of Homesteading  written in 1973 by Maynard and Sally Kaufman.
• Outline of School of Homesteading Activities  What students could have expected, attending the School of Homesteading back in 1973.  By Maynard and Sally Kaufman (actually a continuation of the previous selection on information).

Hopefully, you can tell that this is a work in progress.  Submissions welcome!  Stay tuned!

(please, only for personal use, thanks!)
Sept. 14 , 1998