How to prepare your family to survive and thrive in todays uncertain world
This spring we planted a total of 51 trees in our new orchard. We have a nice hill with perfect southern exposure so it gets plenty of light. It’s not too steep so water shouldn’t run off too fast. We’re also considering putting in a few swales to keep more water on the hill, but [...]
So as I mentioned in my last post, we had an extended visit to the Property, or ‘The Farm’ as the kids like to call it. I despise crossing the Cascades west-bound on any holiday weekend, so instead of coming back Monday, we stayed until Tuesday. While most of the weekend was spent relaxing and [...]
Sorry for being awol for a few days, but we decided to take a last minute trip out to the property to visit with my folks and have some recreational time. We also wanted to review the site we had planned for the new house we’re building. My wife and I both had a few [...]
Every year my wife and I sit down and talk about what we want to do that year, and to revise some of our longer term plans. This year our conversation started out on a rather drastic note. Around Christmas time we were able to spend some time out at our property to enjoy some [...]
This is part two of my ‘How To Build A Small Cabin‘ series. If you haven’t read part one, you should go back and read How To Build A Small Cabin – The Planning Process. The very first thing I did once I decided how big the cabin would be was to prepare the site. [...]
This post will describe one of our projects this year on our property. We have water there through a deep drilled well, but we really wanted an auxiliary source of water. The answer came when we found a spot we thought would be suitable for a dug well. What Kinds Of Wells Are There? There [...]
Well, one of the things we worked on this year was building a small cabin, really just a bunk house, for some of our kids to sleep in. Right now we have something that is affectionately called ‘Hiawatha Village’ … A bunch of tents, one for each of the older children, set up in a [...]
I don’t recall if I’ve mentioned this before, but we have a 30′ trailer parked on our land. Unfortunately it was in a temporary location that wasn’t near the location we have picked out for our future home. Picking Out And Preparing A New Camp Site So last year we decided to prep a new [...]
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