A Better Cabin, Quicker and Cheaper – Part 1
Our Portable Building Cabin Adventure Begins Dick Proenneke is a name familiar…
Homesteading with Pythagoras: Recycled Chicken Coop to Homestead Building
When a neighbor offered us an old outbuilding—one that was in fairly…
Tiny Houses, Big Potential
What is your ideal house-size? Is it 1,000 square-feet? 2,000 square feet…
Secrets to Turning a Rent-to-Own Storage Building into a House, Part Two
Repeat after me, “Blocking, blocking, blocking!” If there is one thing on…
Yesterday’s Fence for Today’s Homestead: Old-fashioned Fencing
Prior to the invention of wire fencing, farmers still had to contain…
Traditional Homestead Construction
This article is inspired by the craftsmanship and elegance of early American…
What to Do When Your Well Gets Sick
Imagine that you are outside working in your garden. You have been…
Designing A Chicken Coop: A Work in Progress
Five years ago, my husband and I designed and built our backyard…
Gimme Shelter (And I’d Like it to Look Like…a House, Please)
There are several options available to the new landowner-slash-rural-inhabitant, some appealing, some…
Natural Building Colloquium of Kerrville, TX: Getting Down and Dirty with Mother Nature
If you are thinking and have been reading about Alternative and Natural…
How Chicken Wire and Concrete Solved My Problems
As some of you may know from reading my Missouri Journal, I…
