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Broccoli and Sprouts Seed Saving
Wikipedia describes “landrace” as this: “A landrace is a domesticated, locally adapted, traditional variety of a species of animal or plant that has developed over time, through adaptation to its...
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Breaking Ground!
After years of waiting, worrying and wondering if we would EVER get our building permit, we are proud to announce that we have finally broken ground! First things first… removing this cute little tree....
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The Red Gate
I love driving down beautiful green country roads in the springtime and looking at all of the gates along the road. I enjoy dreaming and wondering about the lives that live beyond them. Gee, what do...
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Zucchini Chips
Probably like you, I had an overabundance of zucchini this past summer, and I was on an endless quest to find different ways to cook the little (sometimes not so little) courgettes. Uh-Oh. Big zucchini...
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Footings – Our House Has Feet!
I must say, it’s quite strange to actually see progress on our new home. We waited so long to get our plans drawn and approved (almost 2-1/2 years) that we can’t believe it’s actually happening! We...
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Building the Walls – Part 1
To catch you up from our last post (click here to read)… we were contacted right away by a very apologetic Paul, the technical guy from Faswall (stuff happens), but in the meantime, the Engineer who...
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Stuff For The New House
Over the past year I have been doing a lot of online shopping and keeping my eye out for things to put into the house. It will probably be months before we have our walls up and a roof overhead, but...
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Energizing Our New Off-Grid Home
Our temporary solar power tower. We will need a much bigger system to run our new house. We have been doing lots of research about off grid solar systems for our new home. For the last three or four...
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How I Refined My Beeswax
Last year we were devastated when we realized that another one of our bee colonies had died. After pampering the girls over the winter with insulation and diapers (yes, diapers!), we thought we were...
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Building the Walls Part 2 – Rebar
Looking down into the Faswall before the concrete is poured The Faswall blocks themselves are not really meant to be structural. The main purpose of the blocks is to hold a place for the concrete and...
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