Spring Starts in February

The Spring Garden: Plant, Plant, and Plant Again

The story of the spring garden is much like past years… in some ways. We plant early to try to beat the summer heat because it isn’t abnormal to be cool like spring one week and in the 90s the next. We are now already full-on in the latter stage, by the way. But this…

Five Years a Homesteader: Our Current Off-Grid Household Infrastructure

Sometimes people ask us what it looks like to live off-grid. Like many words, it has different meanings depending on who you talk to. Our version of off-grid infrastructure has had many iterations in the five years we’ve lived here and where we are at currently is probably the most workable it has ever been….

Surprising Results with a “Real” Off-Grid Washing Machine

(Video includes a special announcement!) Sometimes the math adds up and it is worth a shot. Hence we thought we would take a try at getting a used washing machine working off our solar system. Shannon did the research and found me some YouTube videos to reference, which helped get the gears moving. With…

Spring Postcards

It has pleased the Lord that we would have a gradual move from winter to summer this year. It is quintessentially spring and it has been such a gift. And rain! No one told me how much easier it is to garden when you don’t have to constantly water your seedlings! Y’all everything is growing and…

Our First Week On The Land, part two

The first half of our week was a bit more of a challenge than the second half, but we are learning daily what it means to throw off all previous expectations and learn from the process. Day Five: We get up early and I crank up the propane stove for what will be our first…

Tepary Beans: One of the Most Drought and Heat Tolerant Crops in the World?

We moved to Central Texas in the fall of 2011, on the heels of one of the worst droughts this state has ever seen. Coming from the Midwest, it was like being transported to another planet. Everything I thought I knew about gardening – like avoiding those spots in our old yard that were too…

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Melissa says:

March 6, 2023 at 10:50 PM

Love that you have returned to this space!

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