Tabletop Homestead is located on 45 acres in southwestern Garvin County, in a little range of hills known as the Tabletop Mountains. It's not prime farm land by any stretch of the imagination, but with lots of hard work we're slowly making it productive.

We started out a one man/one woman operation, but have joyfully expanded to include our daughter, son-in-law and two grandchildren. We try to raise as much of our produce as possible and preserve it by canning and dehydrating. We've been working on ammending the shallow clay soil in our gardens with compost, manure and cover crops. For 6 years we hauled our water, so water conservation is always kept in mind.  We've purchased a solar system to pump water from a year round spring about 1/4 mile below the main house and rural water was made available in January 2006.  The availablity of water for irrigation has gone long way towards boosting our productivity   In January 2004 we moved into our  completely owner built home that ended up costing well under $20,000.   Our first  home was a 1950's vintage Spartanette travel trailer with a 12ft x 18ft addition that altogether cost less than $2,000 and was warm, dry and liveable.  We've added an inexpensive greenhouse to the south side of the house that enables us to start our own plants and extend the growing season. 

This website is our effort in encouragement to those, especially in Oklahoma, who are either pursuing a homestead lifestyle or only dreaming of it.  Like our way of life, you'll find this site low key - nothing flashy or fancy - but hopefully helpful and easy to use.  We want to provide more than just the longest list of links.  We've offered up our own experiences and recommended reading list along with selected links that we've found to be most helpful and pertinent to Oklahoma.  Also, we've tried to stay as far away from commercial sites as we could and still provide good information.  Occasionally we have excesses of what we produce for sale and are willing to conduct classes on various homesteading skills.

In order to know where you're going, you've got to to know where you've been, which is why we've included a section devoted to what some would call the "real homesteaders" - our grandparents and great grandparents who bravely settled the plains when they were still wild.

We are Christians and give all glory for any success or influence we may have to our Father in heaven through his son Jesus Christ.