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Energy and The Garden – 5 unconventional ways to boost your garden’s production

Proper soil and a good watering schedule are always ideal for optimal growing conditions for plants but here are 5 more unconventional things you should consider to boom your garden in 2018: 1. Timing your Garden with the lunar calendar The Earth is always in a gravitational pull between the sun and the moon. Just how the full moon effects […]

Hoop-House Design 101: Making your own hoop house for under $1000

A hoop house is non-heated greenhouse.  It is a great place for cold hardy plants in the winter and a great place for seed starting and plants that can handle extreme heat in the summer, but make sure to set your mouse traps.  Based on your climate, you may choose to forego the plastic wrap and just use a shade […]

Do we have to be bee keepers to do something for the bees? 

Do we have to be bee keepers to do something for the bees?  No, but here are 6 things you can do to be there for the bees: (You can just do 1 or BEE a BADASS Human and do all 5! And here is a link back to our blog poem post last week: Be there for the bees. 1. […]

Planning your Kitchen Garden

Since the beginning of our journey on our property and homestead, growing our own food has been one of our main aspirations and dreams in the overall scheme of our property development. To many people, gardening means getting their hands dirty so to speak and finding a deeper connection with were there food comes from. Gardening can be overwhelming at […]

Take 5 for Friday 1-26-18

Take 5 for Friday : (1) Podcast of the week:  Coming down from Breckenridge on Monday we caught up on some Bill Burr’s Monday Morning Podcasts, episodes from 1/19 and 1/22 — just a great way to kick back on the road and let the man shoot the shit with you – don’t have expectations from this ginger F”&$; you […]

Be there for the Bees. Please!

Did you know Bees are responsible for Cross-pollination which helps at least 30 percent of the world’s crops and 90 percent of our wild plants to thrive?  Without bees to spread seeds, many plants—including food crops—would die off.   <https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/bees.pdf> Go here to find out more information on why we need bees. So what are you doing to be there […]

Take 5 for Friday:  1-19-18 

(1.) Podcasts we listened to this week:  All Joe this week – he just crushes it by creating real conversations with so many BADASS HUMANS! Joe Rogan Experience #1064  Eddie Huang &  – conversations on Net Neutrality discussing Internet control   and how broadband providers now have legal rights to block sights, throttle internet speeds, and monopolize the media. This […]

Earthships – like a ship on earth bro? No, but Kinda.

Permaculture and Earthships – Are Two Peas in a Pod. Earthships – The Off-Grid, living, Eco Friendly Home and Permaculture, both encourage working with nature as oppose to against her, closed loop systems, growing food onsite, collecting water and using it to its full potential. We hope to build one of our own some day. So An Earthship is not […]

Setting up an off-grid kitchen garden for the boomstead. 

Where to start? Observation and Questions to ask your self? Grab your favorite beverage and scan the sight with your partner if you have one. Your looking for the optimal sight for your food to grow. Where d o you get enough sun for your growing needs? Where is the wind coming from? What are the native plant species and living […]

Off-Grid Toilets

During our adventure of living in our off-grid tiny house, one of the many things we have had to learn how to handle has literally been our human waste. Of course this topic is not for the squeamish per se, but in that lies the issue with why more people don’t take an alternative route and change how they do […]