Wilder on the Prairie

Chapter 8 "Sunday"   Join us this week as we discuss currycombs, fullcloth, broadcloth, stock ties, merino wool, Uncle Wesley and Cousin Frank, how to make potato starch, the word "harrow", and apple pies with a slice of cheese.

Join us this week for chapter 7 of Farmer Boy entitled "Saturday Nights".   We discuss donuts, the Comanche, soft soap, shirts, and underwaists.

Chapter 6 "Filling the Ice House"   Join us this week as we discuss the Trout River, the French-Canadian population of Franklin County in 1860, crosscut saws, ice tongs, sawdust as insulation, apples and onions, and bird's nest pudding.

Chapter 5 "Birthday"   Join us this week as we discuss Almanzo's true year of birth, yokes, barn jumpers, weaving, hanks of yarn, stanchions, and freezing your tongue to a flagpole.

Chapter 4 "Surprise"   This week's episode covers primers, schoolhouse entries, and whips.

Chapter 3 "Winter Night"   In this week's episode, we discuss tallow, pannikins, hossocks, popcorn, and the Wilder "dialect". 

Chapter 2 "Winter Evening"   Join us this week as we talk about threshing floors, fanning mils, sheep folds, haymows, James Wilder, hoop skirts, Angelina Wilder, and air castles.

Welcome to the first chapter of "Farmer Boy", School Days!   In this chapter we will talk about the Wilder family, fullcloth, and Hardscrabble Hill.

"Deer in the Wood"   This week we discuss quilts, "O Susannah", and "Auld Lang Syne".

"The Wonderful Machine"   This week's podcast discusses sumac, hubbard squash, hulled corn, threshing machines, and johnnycakes.

"Harvest"   This week we discuss Laura's cousin Charley, harvesting oats the old-fashioned way*, yellowjackets, and herbs for fevers.

Chapter 10 "Summertime"   Come with us as we discuss Laura's Uncle Henry, her neighbors the Petersons, the Huleatts, the Godey's Ladies Book, Aunt Lotty, polishing stoves, making cheese, "Old Grimes", and a grubbing hoe. Would Pa really not have been stung by bees while looking for honey? 

"Going to Town"   Today our chapter covers hazel bushes, thimble flowers, grass flowers, jack knives, turkey red, galluses, the "Roses Are Red" poem, and "Be It Ever So Humble There's No Place Like Home."

Chapter 8 "Dance at Grandpa's"   Today's topics covered include much of Pa's family (his parents and some of his siblings), hasty pudding, undergarments, darning socks, jewelry, "O You Buffalo Gals", "The Irish Washerwoman", salt-rising bread.

"The Sugar Snow"   Today's podcast episode discusses maple syrup production, milkpans, delaine fabric, basques and whalebone structuring in garments, and "I'm Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines".

"The Two Big Bears"   Today we talk bears, latched doors, shades of blue, bedtime prayers, and "My Sweet Kitty Wells".

Join us this week for Chapter 5 from "Little House in the Big Woods," "Sundays." We will explore what Laura could and couldn't do on Sundays, the story of Grandpa's Sled and the Pig, as well as several songs of the era.

Chapter 4 of  Little House in the Big Woods  is "Christmas." Join us for a discussion on Christmas cooking, the Ingalls cousins, old-fashioned songs, and toys.

Chapter 3 "The Long Rifle"   Please join us this week as we discuss Pa cleaning his rifle, making bullets, and loading the rifle.

In today's podcast episode, we discuss bear meat, housekeeping in a log cabin, churning butter, patty pans, kerosene lanterns, and whether or not you can still find black panthers in Wiconsin today.

"Wilder on the Prairie" is the only podcast to cover all things Laura Ingalls Wilder, one "Little House" book at a time.     Join us this week as we discuss the animals found in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, the Ingalls' little house, and butchering time.

Introductory episode to "Wilder on the Prairie" Podcast. Contains podcast mission and brief introduction from podcast host, Annie Kontor.