When you are building a homestead from scratch, there are some basic needs that need to be figured out:
Where do we sleep while we build? (For us it was camping during the summer and now living in our cozy home while finishing the interior)
Where do we get our drinking, bathing, and washing ...
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Composting Toilets on the Homestead
Making Beeswax Candles
While I never expected to be living electricity-free for quite so long, there are certain benefits that come with unplugging. For one, we get to experience the warm glow of lighting with beeswax candles each and every night! After purchasing way too many cheap (or not so cheap) candles, we finally ...
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Out the Front Door
Snapshots and snippets of the beautiful, crazy world right out our front door.
If you’d like to share some of your own photos or a blog post, please leave a link in the comments!
Ella works the new water pump.
Lighting the house with the warm glow and amazing scent of beeswax ...
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Gratitude :: Community Communication
This week has been a challenging one for our little homeschool cooperative. We experienced some group conflict as a result of diving forward into the new year without a clear set of guidelines for how we'd make group decisions or resolve disagreements. A seemingly simple decision over an upcoming ...
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