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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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Farming in a Construction Zone Part 2: Seed Beds!

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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Farming in a Construction Zone Part 1: Microgreens!

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 29, 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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Kimi BrownKawa

Jan 26, 2020
3 min

Fill 'er Up

The machine returns to save us hours of backbreaking labor!

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Kimi BrownKawa

Jan 22, 2020
3 min

Wrap Up

Another baby step toward building our geothermal greenhouse, and a little more dreaming about what might eventually grow inside!

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Kimi BrownKawa

Jan 22, 2020
3 min

Planting Plans

As the snow flurries outside, we hunker down and dream of subtropical fruits in our (pending) geothermal greenhouse.

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BrownKawa Blog /

Taming the Bounce House, Part Two

Taming the Bounce House, Part One

Getting Tired!

Farm to Market to Farm

Breaking New Ground

Farming in a Construction Zone: Trees!

Farming in a Construction Zone Part 2: Seed Beds!

Farming in a Construction Zone Part 1: Microgreens!

Farmsteading in the Era of COVID-19

Ignorable Details: Ollas

Ignorable Details: End Walls

Ignorable Details: Lexan

Ignorable Details: Interior Siding

Greenhouse Catchup Summary

Taking Shape!

Frozen Beds

Power Struggle

Fill 'er Up

Wrap Up

Planting Plans

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