We took time our first years here for observation, analysis, and planning. At that time, we had three areas for self-reliance that we wanted...

In a recent post, I shared Dan's latest project , the start on an idea we came up with years ago - a trellising shade and grape g...

It's not all bad. The first half of summer was devastatingly hot and dry , but Mid-July through mid-August finally brought us plentiful ...

Continued from part 2, " Analyzing My Current  Cleaners: How Greywater Friendly Are They? " My goal for the last phase of my r...

Continued from part 1 " Of Soap,  Detergent,  & Greywater " My recent greywater research is part of a homestead greywater ...

It's been a tough summer for gardening. We've been in the upper 90s since the beginning of May, with a stretch of 8 weeks and no rai...

The sawmill stands covered to protect it from rain. Well, the barn project is at a standstill for the moment. Dan needed to order new ...

Dan may have found the old well. He recently looked online for tips on finding old wells, and we think it's been under our very noses al...

Although we continually seem to be analyzing what we're doing and evaluating what we've done, once a year we try to put it all down ...

One of our 2011 homestead goals , is to begin to utilize water conservation systems. By this of course, I mean rainwater collection and grey...