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 water? (Rainwater catchment + Berkey filter for drinking, pond for everything else, and in times of necessity, filling up barrels at friends' houses) How do we stay warm? (Wood stove and a well-insulated house!) How do we cook? (We use a combination of a Rocket Stove, our wood stove, a propane camping stove, and our Sun Oven) And finally, where do we poop? So that's the topic I will … [Read more...]