Kyle and I spent several hours picking blueberries yesterday. It didn’t matter that it was raining and we got soaking wet. Blueberries are Kyle’s favorite thing and they were ready to be picked!
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Tips For Living Small
Kyle and I currently live in roughly 96 sq feet of space, so we know a thing or two about living small. I thought I’d write out some of the things that we’ve learned that have made living in such tight quarters easier for us. We were even interviewed for Tiny Home Magazines Winter 2020 edition! Continue reading “Tips For Living Small”
DIY Off Grid Water Filter
I finally finished our most recent homestead project, and just in time too! We were almost out of water brought in from town, so I built us a water filter for the creek water here. I used a ceramic filter, spigot and two food safe buckets (though if I did this project again I’d use steel pots). Continue reading “DIY Off Grid Water Filter”
Dogs And Outhouses
After much online searching, I have been able to come up with nothing on how to solve an interesting problem we’ve encountered out here, dogs and outhouses.
Someone….
is much too interested in the outhouse! So far Ronan has been caught trying to dig under it three times. That’s not a behavior I’m willing to allow. Luckily, none of the other dogs have any interest in the outhouse at all. Continue reading “Dogs And Outhouses”
Building A Chicken Coop For (Almost) Free
Today we finished our 3′ x 5′ chicken coop (yay!) and were able to move our thirty-two chicks out of the green house.
I know a 3′ X 5′ seems a little small for thirty-two chickens, but they are all under a month old right now and have plenty of space. And fifteen of them are meat birds, so they won’t be living in the coop to long. We made a stockade style “cabin” chicken coop as we needed to clear some trees, anyway. We were able to come up with quite a few 4 ft long pieces roughly the same diameter. So then we picked a spot and Kyle started digging!
Continue reading “Building A Chicken Coop For (Almost) Free”
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