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 she also runs the church’s [...]
Entry #63 – A great Adventure
This excerpt was taken from the video series we have recently completed on “Small Footprint Big Handprint”. As soon as I saw it I wanted to post it for you all to see. It is [...]
Entry #62 – The first seeds of Spring
Nancy & Lilly plant the first seeds of Spring This year Nancy prepared a calendar dedicated to getting our garden planted on schedule. In years [...]
Entry #61 – Constructing free-stacked mortar-less rock walls
Sometimes I think my dad and I have a little Inca blood in us. We both love building rock retaining walls and between the two of us have built thousands of feet of them through [...]
Entry #60 – Homesteading now & then – Sustainability when it was a necessary way of life
I love American history, especially when it comes to the development of the west. I know the story of Lewis and Clark in detail and can tell it like a bedtime story. I did my [...]
Entry #59 – The chickens have finally come home to roost
One of my goals for this past winter has been to complete our new chicken coop before the end of March. Most commercial chicken growers here in Idaho hatch their first wave of [...]
