James and Coral left to go to Courtney and Dan’s wedding for 3 weeks. Attempted to create a grey water wetlands. Unfortunately we made the top three mistakes of grey water. 1 – thinking it is easy, 2 – starting before doing the proper research, 3 – trying to do things out of place such Read More
Category: Sustainable Living
July 2012
Worked on harvesting and tending to the garden. We adopted 3 Standard Bronze Turkeys. Unfortunately one died 3 days later. The other two were named Bonnie and Clyde. A few weeks later we adopted 3 Rio Grande Turkeys and 1 Great White. Built our composting toilet and our humanure pile. Human waste is very high Read More
June 2012
Our friend Joanie donated a 500 gallon water tank to us. We put the tank next to the well and hooked the water tank up to the garden and chicken coup water line. We set up the drip irrigation for our garden. We realized unfortunately that we did not have enough pressure from the water Read More