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 [...]
Entry #26 Making hay – Part two – Gathering equipment
My old Allis Chalmers tractor needed some help until Don stopped by It can be overwhelming and sometimes paralyzing when a person is challenged with a new task not knowing how or where to even [...]
