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Tim’s Lessons-Learned Backpacking for the First Time The year is finally ramping down to its last few months. Lauren, like any other crazy adventurer, wanted to sneak in one last backpacking trip for the year before it got too cold. I, being her loving adventure partner, decided to join her on her crazy quest to […]
As part of our City to Farm Plan we want to learn building skills. We want to build our own house, so in June 2018 we took the Basics of Building Class from the Heartwood School of Homebuilding Crafts. (Heartwood website) While this meant we sacrificed our vacation this summer for school, we deeply enjoyed […]
We are super excited to start actually looking at land to buy! What an exciting new adventure to have embarked upon. Tim and I have been on the hunt for a rural property to start to develop. One day we hope to call it home. You can read our full transition plan here: City to […]
In late March 2018, I took an Axe Skills course with Mountainsong Expeditions. I deeply enjoyed getting a comprehensive education on axes in one day. This saved some of the piecemeal learning, one would normally pick up over time from their elders or through the school of hard-knocks. I started having used an axe only […]
In February, I got the awesome chance to go hang out with my friends at their parent’s +150 acre farm. Always eager to learn a new skill, Cole strapped his chainsaw to the back of his four-wheeler. I hopped on the other one, and off we went to find a nice, dead, non-intimidating tree for […]
- 5 Steps to Planning your Garden in Winter for Summer Success
- Class Review of Boston Firearm School’s LTC Course
- Class Review of Cheese-making Class at the Milk Shanty
- Class Review of Mass Wildlife: Basic Hunter Education
- 10 Lessons Learned from Last Year’s Garden 2017
- 10 Things I Learned on my First Deer Hunt
- Final 2017 Community Garden Yields
- My First 2017 Harvest + Blooming Vegetables
- Post-Vacation Garden Growth
- Preparing My Garden for Vacation: Community Garden Update
- My Community Garden Layout for Summer Success
- 10 Lessons Learned from Last Year’s Garden 2016
- City to Farm Strategy
- Why Am I so Passionate about Preparedness
- Why Am I so Passionate About Homesteading
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