A drip irrigation improvisation for your garden- Entry #89
This past week I planted twenty hills of melons and squash and Nancy transplanted a 50-foot row of heirloom tomatoes she had started from seeds in the [...]
Reusing household grey water – Entry #88
Irrigating the orchard with grey water Cliff turns the grey water valve under the house Lid covering the 500 gal. grey water starage tank The availability and scarcity of [...]
A conversation with the UPS man – Entry #87
We had a new UPS driver today deliver a package that I had ordered. As I was walking up to his truck I noticed him looking at the barn and [...]
Organic chickens in eight weeks- Entry #86
Eight weeks ago Nancy called me from a feed store in Weiser, Idaho asking me what I thought about her purchasing a dozen baby meat chicks and [...]
Building a top rail fence – Entry #85
Toprail and three stands of barbless wire My favorite kind of fencing is a top rail fence because it’s not only highly functional [...]
Three reasons to use timed drip systems in your vegetable garden – Entry #84
Over the years we have put in dozens of vegetable gardens but it has only been in the last few [...]
Shocking truths about the use of electric fencing – Entry #83
I have never put too much faith in electric stock fencing. It didn’t seem logical that a small wire pulsating a harmless electric jolt could detour a 1000 [...]
A Call to Action – Entry #82
This video is my response to the pursuit of a sustainable world and a church that could rise to the crises before us. It’s my hope that you might take a few [...]
Building a Hay Shed – Lessons I’ve learned – Entry #81
After stacking hay from last summer’s haying season it didn’t take long to realize how beneficial it would be to construct a shed to protect it. Throughout [...]
Entry #80 – The Promise – A covenant between God and his creation
As Nancy and I arrived home from church a week ago Sunday, Lily our little Golden Lab was nowhere to be seen. This worried us because she faithfully runs to [...]
Entry #79 – Three Pillars of Sustainability and the Fall of a Nation
Hope plants a tree with her greatgrandparents Last weekend we had a family gathering at our ranch and my parents, now in their early nineties, brought a [...]
Entry #78 – Excerpt from “The Good Soil” – Chapter Four
I’ve set aside today to sit at my computer and write chapter four of the book I’m working on called the “Good Soil”. The book takes both poetic and prophetic [...]
Entry #77 – Memories of Old Blue
Back in the 60′s the folk singer Joan Baez wrote and sang a song about her old dog named Blue. She sang, “Well I had an old dog and his [...]
Entry #76 – Memories of Homemade Fun
When I was a young boy my parents sent me each summer on a Grey Hound Bus to my aunt and uncles farm on [...]
Entry #75 – Brook’s $60 homemade composter
Inside view - note inside flange Outside flange, 6" nipple & 4X4 post A couple of weeks ago our son Brook called [...]
Entry #74 – Country Grown Kids
Sometimes I think my dad and I have a little Inca blood in us. We both love building rock retaining walls and between the [...]
Entry #72 – Commissioned to Conserve
See Tri’s article featured this week on the cover of Rick Warren’s new on line magizine - Purpose Driven Connecion. By : Erin Jones From: PurposeDriven.com Wednesday, April 22, [...]
Entry #71 – The Lost art of outhouse construction
Before I begin my blow by blow account on the fine art of outhouse construction I want to openly admit that [...]
Entry #70 – Bill Meeker & the Community of “Garden O’ Feedin”
Bill Meeker - A legend in his own time Inside the greenhouse Preparation for another season Transfering seedlings in early spring [...]
Entry #69 – Panic Survival vs. Sustainable Lifestyle :: What’s Your Worldview?
I have been thinking a lot lately about how differently people are reacting to the hard times our nation is facing. Our public is being bombarded with information that has [...]
Entry #68 – Smoke ‘em if You Got ‘em
I don’t know why it is, but it seems that whenever I am learning something new it is generally a stressful experience. When we decided to bail hay for the first time and thought about [...]
Entry #67 – The sustainable nature of God – Pondering the miracle of Easter
Easter is about resurrection. It’s about death turning into life again; new beginnings and fresh starts. I was sitting in my study early this morning thinking about the message I’ll [...]
Entry #66 – Heirloom vs. hybrid seed – Should we care?
Hybrid seed has become the norm since 1951 Nancy and I have mentioned that we started using heirloom seed rather [...]
Entry #65 – About my vegetable planting calendar
In response to so many asking about our planting calendar (see entry #62) Tri suggested that I should put the answer into a posted entry. So here goes. I [...]
Entry #64 – Fighting for the garbage
Our church staff gave us a compost bucket for Christmas Lori Thompson is not only my amazing secretary and administrative assistant at church but [...]
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