by Heidi Madsen | May 16, 2017 | Off-Grid Living, The Homestead
On April 10th our apprentice Hallie picked up our seventeen day old chicks from the local farm store and got them situated with the water, food, and warming cave! Since we live off-grid with just a modest solar panel system, we aren’t able to use a typical heat...
by Heidi Madsen | Apr 30, 2017 | Gardening, The Homestead
We had the pleasure of hosting two wonderfully synergistic permaculture apprentice groups this month and they helped us make HUGE progress on our medicinal garden beds!! The process of building these raised beds begins with gathering brush from the land to form the...
by Heidi Madsen | Apr 4, 2017 | Gardening, The Homestead
Here’s an aerial view so you can see how we hope to expand the gardens this year! (The blue outline is our existing “kitchen garden”…the yellow outline is space we hope to fill this season with terraced beds on the south-facing...
by Heidi Madsen | Mar 31, 2017 | Gardening, The Homestead
The girls and I spiffed up the garden paths today with some fresh straw. ❤ (The cardboard is to smother the brambles that have started to poke through.) This is our “kitchen garden” that we actually started before we were even camping here on the land. In...
by Heidi Madsen | Oct 12, 2016 | Off-Grid Living, The Homestead, The House Build
It’s been a big day around here! We still don’t know if we will be able to stay in the house all winter, but we are a giant leap closer today. Jonathan spent several hours building the chimney and prepping the wood burning stove for its first fire! And our...
by Heidi Madsen | Jul 5, 2016 | Everything Else, Nature, The Homestead
The blackcaps and blackberries are going off right now! It’s seems everywhere I turn there are scrumptious berries to eat! We’ve been hearing of several bear sightings in the neighborhood these days, so I think we aren’t the only ones enjoying the...
