#livingsustainably

Goats have been grazing my garden and its being a struggle to keep my garden. I decided to make use of plastic bottles to serve as some form of protection. The bottles could have been thrown away thus

Here's a shot of an area in progress on the farm, with a lake area starting to take form and cut bamboo in the background.   Here is wishing everyone a happy holidays - I hope you get to spend

@nathanmars continues to refine and define his project - Link777 - and has some fantastic homework for us all right now! Consider this my up to date #introducemyself post, complete with projects, future

I have many memories in this space that I am showing today, a space that we created for our experiments in dealing with plants and saving the planet! Turns out, you can grow things just about anywhere.

We have already left Wisconsin but not in our hearts! We still have a few videos left to show you all the work we did to close out the season. Even though it was beginning to snow we were able to get more

Did you know that there are companies that look for places to dump chipped woody debris that they clean off highways, away from electrical and high tension wires, and from public and private areas? To

Trees have so many benefits and functions, but we have to start somewhere. How about starting from where we are? We are currently helping our family with tree and soil maintenance, we are working hard

So as a friend put it as a response to my last article, some of you may have noticed that I have been a bit scarce lately. It is not my intention to remain so indefinitely, but sometimes in life it is

I have been having a tough time getting back to center with my writing, and during this process with Steem we have continued to grow and change, to move around and continue to walk the spiral path to the

If you're following some of my curation post, I am sure you have seen me curating some of the simple and complex post on making use of the solar energy. You can see that there countless projects that you

When you homestead, sometimes things go smoothly and easily, but quite frequently, challenges pop up. I say 'challenges'. Many people would say 'problems', but I try to look at things from the point of

Hello to all allies and amigos! I'm back on Steem with a blog post about blogging, a meta blog! Seriously, according to my feed its been 21 days since I last made a post, and thats a really long time.

You are looking at what is left of an intermittent stream in East Kentucky. The land has been dozed for a home, and the stream filled in for a drive way. Now oil seeps out of the ground. I'm not sure why,

Image source: google Nigeria is one of the countries producing cassava in large quantity in the world, alongside countries like Ghana,Senegal, Benin Republic, Cameroon, etc. Nigeria is a country where

Three years ago, we had some money. Way back then I got the bright idea that what I needed was a walk-behind tractor. I got over that pretty quick, but not before I dropped $1,300 on a nice looking rebuilt

After planting our two cloth beds, I quickly realized this was not going to be enough. I have the same realization every spring as the warming temperatures reveal the potential of the Kentucky growing

Gerri and I both grew up about an hour east of Toronto, Ontario. We didn't really know each other until I decided to move back east from Fort St. John, BC. I planned to move to Hartland, New Brunswick

Hi! We are Chris and Gerri, and we are Granola Light. (an old truck we came across while digging some excellent soil out of a ditch.) Gerri came up with that name because we are working towards being granolas,

With Spring at our doorsteps I thought would share this guide that me and my wife put together. I usually teach a couple edible/medicinal plant workshops each year and I use this has a handout when I do.

At 80 degrees, Tuesday was the warmest day on record for February in Kentucky. We'd had cloudy skies for close to a month, and I was in need of some sun. I took the opportunity to get some seeds planted.