The Country Craft Store

Hi, this isn't Green Acres, but we both returned to the country to raise animals and catch some clean air. Our store is, in part, a way to help some neighbors who produce handicrafts but don't know how to sell them or, as Amish, can't use the Internet

We have a strong belief in the importance of pastoral economics, that is, the economic view of life where you don simply look at the direct costs which you can put on a financial balance sheet, but also the cost to the environment and the psyche.

Basically we ask whether it is a more fulfilling life to commute several hours every day to sit in an office and earn $50,000 per year, most of which goes to the costs of living in the suburbs, or to live in a small town environment and only earn $20,000 per year where a very good home sells for $50,000 and deer graze on your lawn.

Country life isn't idyllic and we don't pretend it is but the problems you encounter here are far different than the ones you have in city life and we feel that more people need to consider the value of having friendly neighbors, inexpensive land, clean air, and the joys of living a bit closer to nature.

The biggest problem is often to find a way to make a decent living and our store is a way we can help our neighbors as much as it is a way to make money ourselves.

We feel that the increase of factory farms is very shortsighted because they have virtually eliminated thousands of useful breeds of animals and many dependable old vegetable varieties.

Right now a disease which only affects five breeds of cattle, poultry, and pigs would wipe out most of the meat production in this country.

But that's just a side benefit of being able to live with and care for animals in a rural setting where the pace of life is slower.

One of our 4-horned Jacob Rams

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