Who Are We?

[Our Great Grandfather and Great Grandmother, Johnny and Katie Carlile, in the early years of their family.]

We're a family aiming to get back to our roots, back to the soil of life.

We're tired of the rat race.  Tired of living in a world of concrete. Tired of living a life that separates families. Tired of seeing the world go to the greedy.  Tired of seeing natural resources wasted. Tired of materialism and consumerism.

We're on a journey back to the days when families nourished the land and the land nourished the family.

Meet the Family:

Chip and Mandy are a brother and sister blogging team with families of their own.


[More information to come.]

"The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit."
Cicero

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.”
--E. F. Schumacker

 “We don't need to increase our goods nearly as much as we need to scale down our wants. Not wanting something is as good as possessing it.”
--Donald Horban

“Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.”
--Elise Boulding

“The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.”
--Robert Louis Stevenson

“A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.” --Eleanor Roosevelt

“To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter … to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring—these are some of the rewards of the simple life.”--John Burroughs