First Cactus blooms for us this year!
#grownostr #plantstr #cactus #zapathon
Don't let your ideals and desire for perfection stop good enough from happening!
Today I compromised, we just don't have enough green (nitrogen) to make compost as fast as we need it so I'm compromising with what I hope will be ok compost. Figure any toxins should be locked up by the fungus so hopefully it won't kill anything! Plus I have friends who are using it and none of their plants have died so here's to hoping it's not contaminated!
It's just one of the cheap ones off Amazon, TABU is the brand. We honestly chose this one because it said we could ship it to a po box, wasn't true but FedEx let us pick it up from their facility near us.
We have the weedeater and chainsaw. Chainsaw was good once my husband replaced the chain and bar with an oregon bar.
GM, Nostr!
The importance of having dogs with good recall when you live in the middle of nowhere and open range lands was a lesson I was reminded of this morning. Had a deer by our outdoor shower this morning that I didn't see when I took my boys out. I realized something was outside when my border collie started a wide herding swoop and the lab went into tracking mode. I called them back and the deer ran off. They're such good boys! Plus my husband will be happy to learn that the lab immediately went into tracking mode when he gets home from work today.
And the best part is the deer left my Jerusalem Artichokes, berries and Comfrey alone!
#grownostr #dogstr #dogsofnostr
Haha, ours purposefully taunt our border collie! They fly just close enough that he can't get them but he definitely tries.
We have the greenworks cordless and we love it! The cordless is awesome, way more quite than gas and no stupid cord.
Anyone off grid or just without a washing machine, this is a total game changer. These are my husband's white dress shirts for church in the washer and they have NOT been this clean since we started traveling or been on our land, which has been the last 5 years! They're actually white again!! So done with the laundromat!
#laundromatsuck #grownostr #offgrid #nomadic
Hopefully you're almost done! Mine was short today so I'm thankfully home.
Off to the fiat mine today, wish me luck!
This is our first year here in Northeastern Arizona and growing in the ground in the high desert. We grew in raised beds and containers in Northern Nevada so this will be a year of experiments! We've been studying permaculture, regenerative soil and what the Hopi did to grow in this area and putting it all together.
We're doing sunken beds like the Hopi did but we're adding Burms to the downslop side of beds to help slow and capture the sheeting water during monsoons. I'm hoping to have to water less during the hot times. But again it's our first time in this area and the first time of growing in the ground in the high desert. I grew up in the mountains in Southern California but the soil there was better than the soil here for vegetables.
We're adding compost and bio-char because our soil is super alkaline. But I've had so many people up here who have said it's impossible to grow in the ground so now I'm challenged to do it and do it cost effectively to show that it is possible.
Do you have any ideas about what you'll be doing for your area?
Well, normally 2% chance of rain in Arizona in the spring means nothing but not today. Today it means I'm just going to rain off and on just enough that you can't get anything done and oh when I do rain it's going to be accompanied by high gusts of winds blowing sand everywhere. Yeah for spring in the high desert!
Are there any other homesteaders or ect, in the high desert?
#grownostr #highdesert #permies #permaculture #gardening #plantstr
Thank you for the work you're doing for us all!
Love this! We have been purposefully picking up skills over the last several years. Our original goal was to be self sufficient but as we've gain not only skills but community our goal has turned into community sufficient.
We've realized that we could be self sufficient but that it'll be a lot easier in hard times if we have an amazing community of other who also have a multitude of skills and have also been preparing for difficult times.
What are some of the skills you've learned in the last few years?
I would go with metal trash cans, the plastic ones rodents can chew through. We have a few dead fridges that some friends gave us and we're going to bury them and use them to store feed too. Anything so that the wood rats and field mice can't get into the feed.