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.
I needed some more saw horses and found this design on youtube.com. I added a 2″x 6″ on the very top instead of a 2″x 4″. They work great!
We were running low on bar soap so Sarah made another batch. You can read more about our recipe, here. After the bars have setup for a day she cuts and stacks the bars for further drying. Then, after a few more weeks she takes a vegetable peeler and shaves the edges off the bars
We used some of our excess logs that we didn’t want to burn in the wood stove for hugelkultur garden beds. Below are some pictures with descriptions of how we built them.You can read more about hugelkultur from richsoil.com, here. The main advantage to hugelkultur is that as the wood rots it will hold water
I set a Priority Mail box on the table outside the front door and kittens have commandeered it for a second home. Coco is staying warm inside a poly tunnel full of kale and a ground cover of clover. Ben takes a break from reading to snuggle with Socks.
Sarah and both her sons ( Ben and Sam) are planning to hike a section of the Appalachian Trail together this summer. We are starting meal preparation with the food dehydrator.We store single servings of each meal using a Food Saver Vacuum Sealer. I will ship them meals to post offices or hostel/hotel locations along
Our turnips were damaged a little bit by temperatures in the teens, but they had bounced back before Sarah recently pulled them all. We like to bake them for an hour at 350 degrees in a greased Pyrex dish with carrots, onion, parsnips, potatoes and any other root crop for an amazing supper. Sarah sometimes
My brother Brent has moved here from Texas and his new “Man Cave” finally arrived. I am looking forward to helping him work on it.
We enjoy growing our own herbs to use in recipes but also to dry out and use in our own tea. Sarah came up with this tea that uses Holy Basil as a base, as follows: 3 parts dried Holy Basil1 part dried Lemon Balm1 part dried Mint1 part or less of dried Stevia. (add
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