I learned my lesson last time and won’t be attempting to get this all done in a single year, but there are several things I’d like to take care of as soon as possible. However, this time around we have Waylon, which makes a HUGE difference in the amount of work we can get done. [...]
A good friend of mine called a few weeks back and asked it I wanted some Shittake spore plugs. Yes, I said! I only have 3 logs in place now and thought it would be a good time to start several more logs… When I got off the phone I realized I needed to check [...]
It’s official; we’ve closed on the farm! We’ll be moving in later this week, as the previous owners still need a few days to move into their new place. All month we’ve been living out of boxes in a rental house “in town” and it hasn’t been without stress. A prolonged transition, complete with three [...]
According to the dictionary, Ambivalence is a noun that means: 1. uncertainty or fluctuation, especially when caused by inability to make a choice or by a simultaneous desire to say or do two opposite or conflicting things. 2. Psychology . the coexistence within an individual of positive and negative feelings toward the same person, object, [...]
The following guest post comes from John Jackson, author of ‘A Little Piece of England: A Tale of Self-Sufficiency’, which tells the tale of how the he and his family, living in a sliver of countryside in London’s commuter belt, worked to become self-sufficient. I approached John about reviewing his book and agreed to participate [...]
It is high season for fresh, local peaches. My peach trees have beared and the fruit now gone, but there are plenty of other peach trees in the area still waiting for human hands to come pick their bounty. Or if one had a few extra bucks they could buy them by the box-full, ready [...]
As some friends and family may know, I was a Journalism major in college. I had a taste of the profession when traveling through southeast Asia writing a few magazine articles. And in college I was able to intern at a regional newspaper, and even had one of my stories as the leader on the [...]
Today I filled the second trailer and truck-load full of stuff to take over to the new place. The first load, yesterday, was of compost and wood. This load will include chicken-wire, 100-feet of flexible drainage pipe, a generator and some fencing. I love the fact that moving for us these days involves the transport [...]
This will probably be the last garden update for awhile since we’re moving to Floyd in a couple of weeks. I’ll post more about that later, but we’re set to close on our current home at the end of the month and are set to close on our new farm at the end of August. [...]
I’m going to go ahead and call the no-till, new garden approach we started last year a resounding success. I may not have the best garden in the county, or even on our road, but everything seems to be doing well enough considering there was no tilling involved and it was started on sod with [...]
We believe that humankind has lost some important things in the march toward progress. That is not to say progress and simplicity are mutually exclusive. We believe we can have both, and this site catalogs our journey as we try to do exactly that.
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