The last couple of weeks have brought absolutely beautiful weather to our part of the world. The temperature has been pleasantly cool...

In the last month, our farm has logged more than 10 inches of rainfall. As the old adage goes, April showers really do bring May flowers....

In precious little bits of free time over the last couple of weeks, I (Ian) have been working on a small flintknapping project....

This spring, we're experimenting with a fun way to plant seeds, using something called "seed bombs". In this post, we'll share the story...

Back in 2015, Ian began putting together a book about Indigenous Choctaw food, during spare time. Due to the complexity of the subject,...

Earlier this month, we closed on the sale of our starter farm (a home and 13 acres). With the funds from that sale, we’ll finally be...

Our goal in managing the Nana Awaya Heritage Farmstead is to learn how to adapt Choctaw traditional culture to modern realities in a way...

While, we haven’t actually heard any rumors floating around about the demise of the Nan Awaya Heritage Farmstead, with our last post...

Tail up, the 2,000 pound animal lets out a bellow that sounds more like a roar of an enraged lion than a noise that a grass-eater should...

Indigenous people all over the world learned how to manage their lands by facilitating natural processes to achieve the results they...

We're currently in the height of Blackberry Month in the Choctaw calendar. This image is of some blackberries picked yesterday at the...

This was our first full weekend off of work since February. It started off ominously when our truck broke down on Friday evening,...

This has been a week of cultural exchange and friendship that we will never forget. The story sort of begins in the 1800s, when some...

When we think about Native American clothing of the past, buckskin is the material that usually comes to mind. Rarely do we picture...

On Saturday, we were honored to have Yappali come to the Nan Awaya Heritage Farmstead. Yappali is an amazing group of Choctaw women (and...

This weekend, we had the opportunity to try out another great Indigenous Choctaw food dish, the original cornbread. This cornbread, no...

No Native American food is more popular than frybread. The frybread that most of us are used to was created by the Navajo people on the...

The flicker of warm, yellow light and the sweet smell of cedar smoke radiated out into the 15 degree January night. We were camped out...

We'd like to introduce you to the newest members of our grazing team, Ninak Tomi and Habli, two Choctaw ponies. These horses come from a...

The end of a year is a good time to reflect on a season's challenges and successes. Early January will mark a year since we began...