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We are now at our new place and somehow I forgot to post the new links The new web site is www.itzawayzbackfarm.com  and the new facebook page, where I keep things updated better than on th...

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Heyyyyyyyyyyyy... we're still here After a couple rather quiet years  to deal with things and stuff, we are moving on. We are in  the process of both selling and buying  and should begin our ...

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a year ago tonite, our lives changed in the blink of the night... some days it seems like it was a long time ago and others it seems like just yesterday...  what a strange trip it has been... ...

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Finally, after two months of weather and  equipment delays,  the piles of junk have been hauled away,   the mud pit out front has been leveled, and the driveway has been fixed!  Hearing the ...

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I finally was able to begin working again this week.  It took much longer (3 weeks) than I had intended but I am finally there. Working from home is great but there are logistical hurdles in do...

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The last few days have had me feeling a little frustrated n grumpy about things n stuff (since resolved). The other night I went down to fetch some green onions to go with dinner n feed the bunn...

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Burning down is not just stressful, it is also very expensive. I never imagined all of the costs involved when something like this happens. It  is not the same as deciding to pack up, leave town...

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I don't have much experience when it comes to fires and the cleanup/recovery process, but I dare say that ours has been  rather smooth and easy going compared to many who go through the experien...

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As homesteaders, our food supply and ways to preserve our food are very important to us. It is, in many ways, what makes us homesteading and self sustaining(ish) people. We only purchased what w...

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Many of you know that our main source for water here was the cistern. When the shack burned, it took away the entire system leaving us with no easy way to source general-purpose water.  Of cours...

http://frugalhomesteads.blogspot.com/2014/12/we-have-water-or-will-when-it-rains.html

Our first big step back to the somewhat modern world was purchasing a solar panel kit for the cabin. We had always talked about it but because we were not spending much time there in recent years...

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After the skid loader came and  knocked most of the place down, we were left with one room and the foundation blocks to finish cleanup of the actual house. We also had to remove several trees o...

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I know this may seem a tad silly to some but.. We had a couple-few bags of wheat stored for grinding and planting. When the house burned, it was spread everywhere where the house stood then...

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The outpouring of love and support has been overwhelming at times. We never imagined that we would have this kind of support from people.We have gotten help from so many it is going to be nearl...

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After the first few days of rain and cold, we began to rummage through the messes left behind. I went searching for treasure hoping that I would find some things that were not ruined. There was v...

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The night of the fire was pure craziness.  After the initial adrenalin surge of getting what we could out of the house, it was several hours of standing around looking at the flames, lights and ...

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     Gone in a blaze of glory..  or something like it.  As we  were getting ready for bed  the dogs began barking alerting us to something going on. As I got up to see what was goin...

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After a very long hiatus, I am back. Life happened over the last couple few years and  priorities had to change a wee bit. The manthing fell at work and was quite injured so I had to pick up sla...

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I was having fun going through some old photos the other day and ran across one of the main garden area from early 2006. Here is the one I took yesterday from about the same place. What a...

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A video of some of the gardens. I somehow managed to omit an entire section but didn't realize it until  it was uploaded.  We have pretty much got everything planted and things are really start...

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  All homestead have implements of destruction  with broken handles. More  often than  not it is easier and as cheap to simply buy a new one  which leaves us all with a pile of  perfectly u...

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Spring has been different normal  this season  so the gardens are off to a rather sluggish start. Rain has been plentiful, perhaps slightly too plentiful,  but temps have been rather cool, esp...

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Most permaculture experts recommend 15% of land mass be in water features. Given we have 15 acres of mountain terrain we will never be able to accomplish this, but we have been  consciously incr...

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Stumbling around the  internet one day,  the manthing ran across  a tinman scarecrow. Knowing we had a pile of empty coffee cans and bored one day, he set about building  Spinnegan.  We...

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Probably not  as it has been so long... Well anyway,  years ago we had a fifth wheel camper and it slowly rotted away. So we tore it down, sorted it and recycled what we  could for...

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