Monsoon!
The roof is on, the rain is coming... time to manage the water for Kimi and Chip's off-grid house project.
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Kimi BrownKawa
- Jul 18, 2021
- 5 min
Ike's Tale
A look back at our dog Ike's life with us 2012-2021
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Kimi BrownKawa
- Apr 19, 2021
- 2 min
We've Been Framed!
When a tire bale house starts looking like a house...
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Kimi BrownKawa
- Nov 13, 2020
- 8 min
Taming the Bounce House, Part Two
How do you wrangle a rubbery tire bale structure into a solid home? Kimi and Chip set out to try... with a little help from their friends!
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Kimi BrownKawa
- Nov 12, 2020
- 6 min
Taming the Bounce House, Part One
How do you wrangle a rubbery tire bale structure into a solid home? Kimi and Chip set out to try... with a little help from their friends!
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Kimi BrownKawa
- Aug 27, 2020
- 14 min
Getting Tired!
Kimi and Chip share the good, the bad, and the ugly of being tired and retired -- check out the progress on their Tire Bale House!
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Kimi BrownKawa
- Aug 23, 2020
- 8 min
Farm to Market to Farm
Kimi and Chip continue to grow... and take a peek at life on the other side of the Farmers' Market table.
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Kimi BrownKawa
- Jul 16, 2020
- 6 min
Breaking New Ground
Groundbreaking: the first-ever fully-permitted tire bale home in the state of New Mexico is on its way!
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Kimi BrownKawa
- Apr 27, 2020
- 7 min
Farming in a Construction Zone: Trees!
Kimi and Chip plant their long-awaited trees!
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Kimi BrownKawa
- Apr 19, 2020
- 6 min
Farming in a Construction Zone Part 2: Seed Beds!
Kimi and Chip inch their way to home-grown vegetables, while continuing to finish the greenhouse.
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Kimi BrownKawa
- Apr 18, 2020
- 6 min
Farming in a Construction Zone Part 1: Microgreens!
It's finally time to put the farming into "Farmstead!"
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Kimi BrownKawa
- Apr 17, 2020
- 5 min
Farmsteading in the Era of COVID-19
No down time! Here is how we've transitioned our mesa farmstead work to the new COVID-19 reality.
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Kimi BrownKawa
- Feb 26, 2020
- 3 min
Ignorable Details: Ollas
Here is everything you wanted to know (or didn't!) about building ollas for our geothermal greenhouse.
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Kimi BrownKawa
- Feb 26, 2020
- 2 min
Ignorable Details: End Walls
Here is everything you wanted to know (or didn't!) about framing the end walls on the east and west faces of our geothermal greenhouse.
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Kimi BrownKawa
- Feb 26, 2020
- 4 min
Ignorable Details: Lexan
Here is everything you wanted to know (or didn't!) about installing the Lexan on the north face of our geothermal greenhouse.
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Kimi BrownKawa
- Feb 26, 2020
- 3 min
Ignorable Details: Interior Siding
Here is everything you wanted to know (or didn't!) about installing the interior siding on the north face of our geothermal greenhouse.
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Kimi BrownKawa
- Feb 26, 2020
- 3 min
Greenhouse Catchup Summary
Here's a quick summary of the work Kimi & Chip did on their passive solar geothermal greenhouse in February!
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Kimi BrownKawa
- Jan 29, 2020
- 4 min
Taking Shape!
For the first time in their geothermal greenhouse building process, a task goes FASTER than Chip and Kimi expected.
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Kimi BrownKawa
- Jan 28, 2020
- 3 min
Frozen Beds
There's a reason folks aren't usually prepping garden beds in January...
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Kimi BrownKawa
- Jan 27, 2020
- 5 min
Power Struggle
Deciding on technology needed for homesteading tasks
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