We didn’t expect to be THIS involved in raising chickens when we moved out here. We started out with 7 hens in the smaller coop on the left of this picture, but this is our third summer here and we’ve built a larger coop (on the right) and have a total of 22 free range […]
Sam Carrillo (Sarah’s son) and his friend Sam Oleson, both from Arizona, are off to hike on the Appalachian Trail this Summer. They started the approach trail at Amicalola Falls on the morning of June 1. They are as prepared as any 19 and 20 year olds can be, with lots of help from their
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
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
Since we live in the woods, we knew that we would be clearing some areas for buildings, gardens, etc. We bought a Stanley CH7 chipper/shredder last year and have been giving it a workout. To make use of the chips, we needed a good way to catch them since they tend to blow all over
We can buy 55 gallon plastic barrels for $5 from our local recycling center. We are going to fill them with dirt and plant some of the harder to contain herbs in them. We decided to cut some of the barrels in half horizontally and others vertically. For the vertically cut barrels we lay them
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I made a simple foot bridge to cross our small creek. It’s two cedar poles about 10′ long with 2″ thick cedar boards screwed into the poles.