Yeah, right…despite resting as much as possible over the last few months, I have not been able to recover from burnout. It feels like I’ve hit a wall. Recovery is definitely a work in progress.
Phoenix here, talking about homesteading and working while dealing with burnout…
Hi, Phoenix here, still talking about dairy farming. Again, K and I are two former city folks…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The biggest challenge to setting up a hoop house here is protecting it from the wind. In spring and fall, we regularly get wind speeds of…
As part of the effort to become food independent, K and I decided to put up a hoop house in fall 2021. What is a hoop house? You’ve probably…
When small-scale/ container gardening, one big thing to pay attention to is…
In this post, I continue the theme of beginning the process of sustainable living even when on the grid. Here I focus on reducing food costs through…
