Part 5: Dairy Farming–making aged cheese (by Phoenix)
Hi, Phoenix here, still talking about dairy farming. Again, K and I are two former city folks…
Category: Self-sufficiency
Part 4: Dairy Farming–making fresh cheese (by Phoenix)
Making mozzarella
Hi, Phoenix here continuing the blog post series on dairy farming. During this post, I’ll share some of the experiences K and I have had making fresh cheese…
Part 3: Dairy Farming–milking the goats (by Phoenix)
Hi, Phoenix here, continuing our discussion on dairy farming. In this blog post, I want to talk about what K and I learned about milking goats, mostly by doing things wrong the first time…
Part 2: Dairy Farming–goat milk vs cow milk (by Phoenix)
Phoenix here, continuing our series on dairy farming. In this post, I want to talk about some of the differences between goat milk and cow milk…
Part 1: Dairy Farming–What is it and why do we care? (by Phoenix)
Hi, Phoenix here. I hope you enjoyed K’s blog series on photovoltaic systems–I know I learned a lot. Now I want to start a series on dairy farming…
Part 6: Photovoltaic systems–types of inverters (by K)
Hi there, K again. So, we’ve talked about solar panels, controllers and batteries. Let’s discuss the last part of the puzzle–how to convert the D.C. power from the batteries to something useful for your home…
Part 5: Photovoltaic systems–types of batteries continued (by K)
Hi there, K again. In this post, I want to continue talking about types of batteries. For a solar system, you want deep cycle batteries.
Part 4: Photovoltaic systems–types of batteries (by K)
K here. Over the last few posts we’ve talked about different components of a photovoltaic system, specifically panels and controllers. In this post, I want to talk about batteries.
Part 4: Challenges we face when conserving water- water tank adventure continued (by Phoenix)
In the last blog post, K and I were completing three weeks without running water, but we had what we needed to install the new tank (at least we thought we did). We started working on the tank on Saturday morning…
Part 2: Long-term water solutions for the outdoors (By K)
During the last blog post, I discussed some indoor long-term water solutions for saving money through water bills, and saving water (and the environment) for future generations. In this post, I will discuss outdoor water-saving solutions…