We've well and truly broken ground now, hitting some major milestones but also breaking some things along the way.
After a couple of hectic weeks of final preparation, this week we had our first glimpse of what lies beneath the surface on our property.
After a lot of consideration, we decided to part ways with our architects. Since then, everything has been turned upside down...in a good way!
Between our travel trailer, equipment trailer and portable sawmill we're no strangers to towing, and this week we added another trailer to our collection!
We visited the Rockler store in Salem, NH to pick up some exciting new tools - a Sawstop Jobsite Table Saw and Dewalt DW735X planer.
We built a 4x8ft log cabin-esque raised garden bed from nothing but spruce logs - perfect for starting our Hügelkultur garden!
Our projected final frost date is fast approaching so we've been planning this year's gardening projects and getting things ready to plant.
I built this simple but effective elevated planter so we can grow fresh herbs this summer - plus we can easily move it with our tractor if we want!
Even though we're still clearing trees for our house site, this week I've been working on installing a roof!
We continue to make progress with clearing the site, found time to make our first ever homemade maple syrup and traded for some fresh local eggs.
We tried making maple syrup from scratch for the first time by tapping our own trees and boiling the sap on a campfire - it was a delicious success!
Yes, it's March. And we're in Vermont. And it might have only been 45°F (7°C) on Monday evening but that didn't stop us having our first campfire of 2022.
We've been back in Vermont just over 2 weeks so the honeymoon is over and now it's time to get to work - building projects and felling trees!
We needed a way to hold a bulk bag open while we filled it with wood chips using our wood chipper - check out our simple DIY solution!
With lumber prices currently sky-high, building with pallets is a great way to use free, reclaimed material to create some simple yet useful projects!
It's that time of year again - mud season! As all the accumulate snow and frozen ground melts, everything turns to mud!
While RV camping off-grid on our property in Vermont we had a big decision to make - should we have a large propane tank delivered or refill our small tanks?
We installed BORA wheel spacers and European diamond studded snow tire chains on our Kubota L3901 compact tractor to help in snow and ice.
Our 1,000ft driveway was covered with a foot of fresh snow so there was just one question - could we snowboard down it? Only one way to find out!
In just a few days we'll be towing our RV from Virginia back up to Vermont, hoping to arrive before the snow melts and turns the roads to mud!
