I have a confession to make; I’m a minimalist. I like open space and clean walls & floors. I am a serious advocate of the 40 hanger closet. My house was even featured on a minimalist blog. Sometimes I think I may be attempting a lifestyle, ie. Homesteading, that isn’t necessarily compatible with Minimalism. I […]
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A Homestead Permaculture Design
I want to be a farmer. I want to grow my own food, raise chickens, and bees, and pigs, and have a root cellar full of stored fruit and canned goods. The problem is that I don’t really know much about any of it. But I’m learning. One of the things I’ve learned a lot […]
Building a Barndominium
The Process of Building a House In March we closed on two acres of land. I naively thought we’d be living in our beautiful new barndominium by the end of the year. I have since discovered that building a home is a process. And it’s a process that takes quite a bit of time. We finally […]
Rebuilding the Foodshed – Review
Review of “Rebuilding the Foodshed” I’ve just finished reading “Rebuilding the Foodshed” by Phillip Ackerman-Leist. For me, the next best thing to actually doing something is researching how to do it. While we work on making Tanglefoot habitable, I’m reading, learning new skills, and dreaming. For a while now, I’ve had this sort of inchoate […]
