speaker’s dinner
The night before the Festival, we gather with all the speakers and share a special meal and evening together…
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this life i live
stories of faith, hope and love
on the new frontier
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May 30, 2023
a place of my own
This weekend at the Festival, we’re building a cabin, and not just any cabin: one that I will one-day-soon be writing these blogs in...
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May 29, 2023
cowboy poet
One of my favorite performers who’ll be on the big stage this year, isn’t a singer or musician, he’s a cowboy…
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May 26, 2023
counting sheep
It’s official!. Besides being farmers, gardeners and homesteaders: we are now shepherds (at least for the next week or so)…
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May 26, 2023
children of the corn
In the Li’l Homesteader area at the Festival this year, we’ve got a couple of big surprises for the kids who come…
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May 14, 2023
full circle
On June 3rd, Collin Raye is gonna be here at our farm performing the song that bought our farm almost 25 years ago…
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May 7, 2023
liberty
We’ve had lots of a new babies born on the farm this Spring, but this one is extra special…
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Apr 14, 2023
tulip festival
We spent Easter weekend at Baker Creek Seeds in Missouri, surrounded by hundreds of thousands of flowers…
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Apr 12, 2023
talent show
On Friday, the kids from the Schoolhouse held their first-ever Talent Show
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Apr 7, 2023
buy one, get one...
Thanks to one of our big sponsors, for the next two weeks, tickets to the Homestead Festival will be ‘buy one, get one free’…
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Apr 6, 2023
spring has sprung
After a long dreary winter, Springtime has finally arrived and with it, lots of new babies here on the farm…
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Apr 1, 2023
the journey
A couple weeks ago I took one of my friends to see a movie staring his hero…
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Mar 30, 2023
change
Indy and I made a trip home to Indiana earlier this month to visit Joey’s family and to remember her seven years after she passed away…
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Mar 10, 2023
the outhouse
We had a big storm come through this past weekend and it blew over Joey’s 30th birthday present…
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Feb 23, 2023
a BFG birthday
On Friday night, we celebrated Indy turning 9 with a special party in the concert hall…
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Feb 22, 2023
downs on the farm
This weekend we’re hosting a down Syndrome conference here in Homestead Hall at our farm…
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Feb 17, 2023
number 9
As Indiana turns 9 today, I take a video walk back through all the birthdays that led us to this one…
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Feb 10, 2023
re-imagining school
Our schoolhouse here at the farm is on front cover of Plain Values this month. A special issue all about education…
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Feb 9, 2023
forever & ever, amen
At one of my concerts in late 2019, country music legend Randy Travis gets the last word in….
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Feb 3, 2023
the mulehouse
I’m a big dreamer. Ridiculous actually. But now and then I meet someone who is an even bigger dreamer than I am…
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Jan 30, 2023
crossroads
My friend Bradley Walker got a surprise phone call from Eric Clapton…
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Jan 30, 2023
christmas morning
Indiana had a special gift from Santa this year under the Christmas tree…
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Jan 26, 2023
disconnected
This isn’t me. Well it is, but it isn’t. I’m not here anymore. Let me explain, or at least try to.
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