For the past couple of weeks we've been busy finalizing the floor plans for our forever home and barn renovation, staking them out on the land and getting back to the architects with our changes. It's been exciting and exhausting, figuring out what our dream would actually look like. But we're getting there! While we… Continue reading Goat Barn: Cob Walls
We are planning on getting a couple of milking goats in the spring. We decided to take advantage of the beautiful sunny winter days here, and get started on the goat barn. We located it on the far end of our land, not too far from our future house, and where the goats will have… Continue reading Goat Barn: Foundation & Roof
Haffy has been excited about introducing ponds to our farm, inspired by Sepp Holzer's use of ponds for establishing water independence and ecosystem restoration.We decided to start small with a greywater filtration pond for our future home, and a green filter pond for our swimming pool. Bearing in mind global warming and our current water… Continue reading Digging the Ponds
We decided to make a Hugel bed next to our future greywater pond. It was a creative solution for the excess soil we dug out for the pond, and well-situated, framing the water by our future home. We used pine logs for the most part and some oak and chestnut branches as well, collecting dead… Continue reading Starting the Hugel Bed
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