Have you distilled essential oils before? So interesting
The tiny house custom RV is complete and earning revenue for the homestead!
After seven and a half years, I've finally completed and put the tiny house RV I've been building into operation at the homestead.
I started building it in November 2016 thinking I could complete the project in a year but I fell victim to the common homesteading practice of building many systems at once. Since my time and energy was split between so many projects at once, the time I had for working on the tiny house was quickly narrowed down to a few months in the winter.
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The days were short and the weather was challenging, plus I was learning many of the techniques from scratch, teaching myself as I went. This made for very slow progress.
However, there were some benefits of moving small and slow on the project. I was able to avoid making any critical/costly mistakes. I also had lots of time to souce cheap and unique reclaimed/recycled materials. Plus, I was able to totally customize and build each component to be unique, leading to it feeling like a work of art rather than a construction project.
For now, I don't think I'll be taking on another project of this scale again anytime soon. But in the end, I taught myself all the skills to build a house from framing and roofing to plumbing and electrical, on down to the finishing techniques for trim.
The intellectual and experiencial capital was definitely worth having so much financial capital tied up in the project for so long. Before I know it, I will have earned it all back anyway leaving me with much more capital than I started with. Low time preference paying off.
#permaculture #permies #homesteading #meshtadel #carpentry #woodworking #tinyhouse
Looks amazing! Nicely done!
I'm starting to plan out what I could grow by concentrating on characteristics. For example, analgesics. Of all the helpful herbs for that, what could I easily grow in my area for that purpose? You could do the same for whatever most ails your family.
Here in the PNW we're happy to see tomatoes ripen at all before the frost gets them. Our window for heat loving plants is pretty small.
Those raccoons! They feasted on my plums!
I've had a blessed abundance in the first year garden via these galvanized tubs, despite a bit of deer browsing. Now it's time for me to do some final harvesting and thinning once deciding what to keep and overwinter. It's also time to get cover crops into most of these tubs. Next year I plan to reduce the amount of vegetables and increase medicinal plants for drying and tincturing, as I have good local sources for veg but not for medicinal herbs. Potentially this could be a decent side hustle for me.
How did your own garden do this year?
#grownostr 
That's great! Nice to get going again and feel like you're in a good place.
we put our poultry upside down in a widened cone, head sticking out. They are calm and constrained. Use a sharp knife across the neck and it will bleed out hanging there. Basically. I'm sure there's a YT tutorial for visual help. Also ask your local farmer where you can find poultry meat to buy; most I know are very friendly and some are even willing to teach in person. Good luck.
Beautiful view 😍
Most people don't even take the time to ask that question.
As thankful as I am for alternative means of communication, nothing will ever be as good as an in person conversation. Thankful I had plenty of that today without any phones in hand. 
Watering my first finished Johnson-Su bioreactor compost. I could've gone another 6" but I ran out of material. That won't be an issue next time, and I've got the second one set up and ready to go. Now I gotta find me some worms to add once the heating cycle is done.
I wish to thank nostr:npub15879mltlln6k8jy32k6xvagmtqx3zhsndchcey8gjyectwldk88sq5kv0n for teaching me how to do it (and why) and also my two sons who made the process far easier and more fun.
I am SO happy with this! Makes me smile so much.
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On overcoming bad tasting herbal medicine.
https://open.substack.com/pub/benevolenthealer/p/but-it-tastes-bad?r=1d4yyq&utm_medium=ios
