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  • Home
  • Overview
    • The Integrated Homestead
    • Life on the Homestead
  • Grow It!
    • Soil Care
    • Composting
    • The Homestead Garden – And More
    • Fungi
    • Greenhouse
    • Homestead Tools
  • Poultry
    • Poultry Overview
    • Feeding The Flock
    • Housing the Flock
    • Ranging the Flock
    • Breeding the Flock
    • Dealing With Predators
    • Butchering Poultry
    • Producing for Small Markets
    • Poultry Miscellaneous
    • Livestock
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Back Porch

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The Back Porch

In this section, I imagine you and I are sitting on the back porch, evening coming on, telling stories. The ones I tell are divided between Boxwood Stories—stories from our life here at Boxwood (though some, such as “The Bamboo Flute,” predate that time)—and Short Fiction, fanciful yarns (some of which may in fact have only a thin overlay of “fiction”).

Boxwood Stories

If you like, we’ll share with you a few stories from our life here at Boxwood (or maybe even from long before). Enjoy. ~Harvey

Table of Contents for Boxwood Stories Section

  • Doggie ESP
  • The Ides of March Storm
  • The Bamboo Flute
  • Meeting the Trickster
  • A Sound in the Night

 

Short Fiction

In this section, I share a few short fictional pieces, many of which were written in a series of writing exercises I did with my daughter Heather and her husband Marty. Pieces included will usually have some relationship with homestead and small farm life, but not necessarily. Enjoy. ~Harvey

Table of Contents for Short Fiction Section

  • The Goatherd
  • The Ballad of Bad-Ass Bob
  • Justifiable Sin
  • Small Injuries
  • The Suckling

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