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Dark Sky Homestead and Herbs
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My husband and I live on our 40 acre off-grid homestead in Northeastern Arizona, we're frugally building it up from raw land to our dream homestead. We sell small batch herbal tea blends. My husband is a Journeyman Inside Wireman and former law enforcement. I'm a recovering corporate drone (HR). Follow along to see us build out our homestead and businesses. Our Etsy Shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/DarkSkyHerbCo Our website: www.darkskyherbs.com

First phase of friend's/ customer's solar project done and been running for the last week! Best part is after the first full day of the system being online they haven't had to run their generator! We're starting on Monday to add the third and final array for their system. We will also double their batteries and bring their system online so that my husband can help monitor their system since they are also friends.

#grownostr #smallbusiness #pronghornelectric #solar #offgrid #selfsufficient

Thanks! Looks interesting, never thought about adding vinegar to peaches. I'll have to try a small batch for us to try!

Ok, never heard of that. Please explain more, like what's in it and the process? I'm super curious as we love peaches and I'm looking at buying a box soon for canning. My husband grew up on a peach orchard, so he won't touch the store canned ones.

Oh that's a lot of squash bugs! But gorgeous flowers and frog!

GM, Nostr!

Some early morning flower pictures!

Prairie Spiderwart

Jerusalem Artichokes/ Sunchokes

Hopi Black Dye Sunflowers

Interesting fact about Prairie Spiderwart, the stamens turn from purple-blue to pink when exposed to ionizing radiations including nuclear radiation.

#grownostr #flowers #growfood #homesteading #permies #permaculture #gardening

Donkey update!

We were coming home just after the sun set and they were on our road coming in. They got scared by the lights and car. I called out to them and they stopped running.

We talked to them from the car to help calm them down a bit. Jokingly told them that if they wanted waterto follow us back, we were about a half a mile from our property. We got back to our property and about 10 minutes later they walked up! We got them some water and gave them pets and they left to go bed down for the night.

#grownostr #donkeys #homesteading

We're in open range so who knows but we do have water for them so hoping they come back. Particularly if we have fencing up and they aren't claimed after we talk with the livestock commissioner.

They are super sweet, they came for three days but haven't come back for the last three. Hoping they're just hunkered down from the rain.

Got about 3/4 of an inch of rain and some cooler temps last night. Grateful that we didn't get any of the severe flash flooding that the Grand Canyon and Vegas had last night. We had some periods of intense rain, the dirt roads are slick with clay and the wash is running this morning. We are definitely are learning to drive in this slick clay, it's nothing like anything we grew up with and sticks like crazy. We'll be getting mud tires for our f350 soonest, just so we can get in and out of our property and we have a decent road compared to many of the other roads in the area.

#grownostr #nature #rain #monsoon #Arizona

Thank you!

Probably not this year, too many projects with just moving onto raw land in the last year. Eventually I'd love to be able to do some natural dyeing.

Hopi Black Dye Sunflower

I planted six of these and the first one didn’t look right but this one does, super excited to see the difference of both heads after they have gone to seed.

#grownostr #Sunflower #gardening #homesteading #permaculture #permies