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Painted Weed & Mushrooms

I’m working on trying to identify numerous plants that are currently growing around the land…

These pictures aren’t playing nice …

Waffle Garden Beds

I will eventually Write about these in more detail. This picture shows one of my waffle garden beds. A waffle garden is a sunken area that’s divided into squares. When viewed from above, it looks like a waffle.

The next …

Sustainable Canning Jars

I got a pressure canner for Christmas 2010 and for the last 9 months I’ve been canning meat almost weekly. Sometimes I’ll do 3 batches in one day so I’ll have a month’s …

Basil Plants in the Garden

And mushroom

If you look closely you’ll see a volunteer mushroom growing too. Unfortunately I don’t know what kind of mushroom so we won’t harvest it, but it should be good for the soil.

Rainwater Harvesting

The center area of our land is fairly flat and clear. We’ve decided a section of this will be our primary homestead area in the next year or two.

We’re not moving the camper over there until we’ve got a well, so that we can have …

Our New House

Just a brief pic to show our new little “house” — aka camper

The cargo trailer made a good bed but didn’t provide for much else and long term it became problematic. Way too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter.

This camper is …

Challenges Growing Food in the Desert

We’ve been living on the land now for five and a half months, and I quickly discovered growing food was going to be one of my biggest challenges in this adventure. The soil is viable and things grow just fine, but there are a number of critters that want the …

Kitchen and Toilet Composting

Composting: An easy way to dispose of all organic waste We are composting kitchen, yard and garden, as well as toilet waste. I decided to separate the toilet composting from the kitchen and garden compost piles because I want to let the toilet compost age one to two …

Corn Sprouts & New Plantings

I got my very first corn sprout Wednesday. I found three actually, one was almost an inch up while two others had just peaked their tips through the soil surface.

I haven’t done a great job tracking my planting dates and …