Entry #32 – Solar hot water – Some things we have learned
Solar hot water panel facing south As I shared in my last entry, Nancy and I decided to incorporate a solar hot water system into the design of our new house. We felt that [...]
Entry #31 – The price of becoming energy free
Using the wind & sun It was always our intention to build a home that was both energy efficient and somewhat independent from commercial outside energy sources. Nancy and I had lived [...]
Entry #30 – Small footprint – Big handprint
Small Footprint Big Handprint Introduction from Vineyard Boise on Vimeo.
Entry #29 – Building a woodburning hot tub
The completed hot tub in action Left photo:Finding the location. Right photo: Building the oven. Left photo:Using a stock tank. Right photo: My dad tries it out. Hot tubing [...]
Entry #28 – Discovering “like hearted people”
Duncan said he loves bucking hay Cleaning up Duncan As Nancy and I moved ahead on our vision to develop a sustainable farmstead an amazing thing began to occur that we weren’t expecting. It [...]
Entry #27 – Making Hay – Part three – Friends to the rescue
Picking up our first field of hay I showed up at old Ray Hawkins place with a flatbed trailer behind my pickup only to discover that the hay rake and the baler [...]
