Let's Reboot Cottage Industry

What You'll Find

• Reflections on the household as a site of economic power
• Explorations of care work, sovereignty, and self-made tools
• Guides to production at a human scale—starting with the basics and building from there

This newsletter is for the ones who feel it—the strange disconnect, the longing for something more tangible, more real. Not just self-sufficiency. Sufficiency with meaning.

Reclaim the Household. Rethink the Economy.

We used to know how to care for ourselves.
We grew herbs on the windowsill, stored preserves in the cellar, and washed with the soap we made.

Somewhere along the way, that knowledge became a novelty, while the home became a zone of consumption, not production, or a place of skill.

We were told that progress meant outsourcing everything.

Our food, clothes, medicine, education, and even the care of the community have been swept up by the dollar sign.

With each convenience, we gave away a little more of our agency.

What was once grown, shared, or freely offered is now something to buy. And the solution we’ve been sold is to trade our time—our only life—for money.

But the truth is: the household has always been a factory. It just got quiet.

Now, a quiet revival is underway. It starts in the kitchen, in the garden, and at the sewing table.

This isn’t about going backwards. It’s about restoring something we didn’t realize we lost.

"The most radical thing we can do is stay at home" - Wendell Berry