We have come to the end of our wood stove use for the season. This is the first full year that we’ve heated our tiny house (< 400 sq. ft.) with wood. It was a mild winter and we ended up using a little less than a cord of wood in our Morso 1410 ‘The […]
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We have a total of eight fruit trees that we are going to create fruit tree guilds around. The basic idea around a fruit tree guild is using companion plants to perform most of the tasks that I would have to do manually, such as weed control, fertilization, and pest control. You can learn more
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We’ve completed a grape trellis and added 3 new grape vines to the garden. This area is a fairly steep slope so we couldn’t put raised beds on it. We are trying to utilize the space with grapes instead…I think it will work, but time will tell. The trellis was easy to build using red
Unfortunately; these 3 red maple trees had to be cut down. They were about 25 feet southwest of the cabin, which is the same direction as much of our prevailing winds. The center tree was half rotted out, as you can see in the photo. We’ve had some high winds this spring and taking care
We are planting out this year’s garden as fast as we can. It is so nice to have the garden fence all done so we can keep the animals out…especially the chickens. We are up to about 15 raised beds, with quite a few additional small and large containers. Within the fenced in garden we
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