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We use raised beds as well have for 20 + years opps :rolleyes: showing my age :lol: We have our barn solar powered, and are in the process of putting up a wind tower. Not a huge one by any means, but Dh has made one large enough to help off set the cost of keeping power for our greenhouse. So...

:welcome Lovechooks, It's great to have a voice from down under. I too have always wanted to visit. Hopefully some day. Sounds as if you have a happy busy life there. It is great that you are that active and keep you children along for the ride. It is a very important life lesson. Your...

Drakemaiden Thanks , I am really proud of it and DH's hard work. :clap It is an 8 mil thick vinyl that DH found called Vinyl pane. It was delveloped by a man who was trying to find a window covering for his chicken coop that the chickens couldn't easily damage. It is 2x the thickness as the...

Thanks Gang :) Yes they did make a wonderful fence I am trying to get 2 or 3 more to finish it on the other side of our moble home. We have used smaller pallets for our fire wood as well for the last 4 years. and I plan to use smoe of the smaller ones for my compost bins as well. There are...

Wow I have been asking this question on this forum and TEG and just found this thread. I will show this to DH and see if he believes it is for us. We live in a moble home and are in the process of moving small buildings and clearing the area to start on the foundation for our Straw Bale home...

:thumbsup U bet cha :thumbsup :frow Karan :D

Hi gang I just read through some of this thread and came to this last post of Beekissed on the use of pallets. We had scored some great newly made 10' long x 4' wide pallets. They were at the school where the roof was getting some repairs and the materials came on them. So we have used some...

Sorry I guess I didn't explain that I live in a moble home. We are in the process of moving chicken coop, run, duck shed, and outside furnace buildings. To clear the area to start the foundation for our Straw Bale home. Just a thought in the area of using an shed or other building. If...

Hi gang I am just recently back to this forum, have been on TEG and BYC quite abit. Any way, I too am looking for an answer to storing veggies since I don't have a basement or root cellar. :/ I had thought of a metal trash partly buried about 4 foot or so and surround the top with straw bale...

Thanks so much I am very proud of it, and very very proud of the hard work DH has done. :love I know he will put that much love and pride in our home as well. :ya :thumbsup You bet i will journal the whole project and show how we are progressing. :thumbsup :frow Karan :D

Thanks Gang for the warm welcome :D We have study on this Straw Bale Home idea for a long time and have even looked at one that was being built an a joining county. And believe it's the best option, for our climate, our budget, and our sense of self sustaining life style. Here are a few...

I haven't been on this forum for about 9 or 10 months been on TEG and BYC. So just returning here now. Just read throught this thread. And see a few talked of Straw Bale building. We live in North Missouri and have been planning to build a Straw Bale home for about 6 years. We own our...

In NE Central Missouri :frow trying our best to be self sufficient as we can Dh is currently working on getting wind genarator up and going. :ya Have greenhouse almost complete.:woot Barn is Solar powered. and we heat with outside wood furnace. Have chickens and ducks. And where we go...

FarmerChick, chickcrew, Beekissed, my goodness the 3 of you women are insperation.. :clap :clap :clap Doing what the rest of us wish we could or should have done. DH and I own 1 1/2 acre then we rent 8 acres (just out side our back door sorta speaking) of pasture where we keep our 6 horses...

If you have the chance to get some pie cherries they make a very nice wine. We usually make ours 5 gallons at a time, after it clears off we bottle about 10-12 bottles. depends on the size of the bottles. If you what something to really kick you in the seat :th use some wild grapes. Pick...

:D Nice site thanks for bring it up. Some real good items. Found a couple of items that may work out to use around our greenhouse. Thanks again :D

Ace, those are some nice looking grapes there, :D are they concord?? Sounds like you have used your recipe before? What is the alcohol content on the finished product? :hu I have a few bottles left of my 1997 batch of grape and a couple of the cherry and I believe 1 of apple & 1 grape of...

:cool: Soo Cool you brought this up Better half... :clap I had just started gathering up bread wrappers this last week. I got to remembering my Grandma Wise would crochet them together and make place mats and door mats for dirty or wet shoes. But for the life of me I couldn't remember, :hu...

:frow just chiming in here guys, :rolleyes: Great thread..... good reading... :caf Makes ya hungry :P with the cheese, Bruschetta, bread & blue berry goodies Oh my :clap Simple life I will have to try some of those wonderful recipes picked some blue berries last week and froze the...

WOW Both projects turned out GREAT :love love them You and Your Hubby should be very proud of your hard work :woot