With my canning, growing plants, and bulk bags of seed, our back porch is...
As there's scarcely enough room to walk through there anymore, Will decided to make some shelves to go on the log wall to hold some of the bags and boxes that are now on...
How do you keep livestock water from freezing solid off-grid?
Obviously, we can't use an electric stock tank heater. Propane heaters are expensive to buy -- and to run! Will remembered his dad telling him about his chore, as a kid, of having to...
How times change!
Twenty-five years ago friends bought a piece of wild woods in northern Minnesota where electricity was not available. There was no cabin or other buildings and friends of theirs and their family thought they...
We’re getting ready to put up the shakes
After a couple of days of sawing cedar blocks and splitting them into gorgeous shakes with his homemade froe, Will and I are getting ready to put up shakes on the overhang roof in...
Our first seeds have popped up
Of course, they're the earliest petunia seeds, which I planted last week. But it's terribly exciting to see those tiny little seedlings bravely poking up, with two feet of snow, right outside of the...