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The roof is on, the rain is coming... time to manage the water for Kimi and Chip's off-grid house project.

A look back at our dog Ike's life with us 2012-2021

When a tire bale house starts looking like a house...

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!

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!

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!

Kimi and Chip continue to grow... and take a peek at life on the other side of the Farmers' Market table.

Groundbreaking: the first-ever fully-permitted tire bale home in the state of New Mexico is on its way!

Kimi and Chip plant their long-awaited trees!

Kimi and Chip inch their way to home-grown vegetables, while continuing to finish the greenhouse.

It's finally time to put the farming into "Farmstead!"

No down time! Here is how we've transitioned our mesa farmstead work to the new COVID-19 reality.

Here is everything you wanted to know (or didn't!) about building ollas for our geothermal greenhouse.

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.

Here is everything you wanted to know (or didn't!) about installing the Lexan on the north face of our geothermal greenhouse.

Here is everything you wanted to know (or didn't!) about installing the interior siding on the north face of our geothermal greenhouse.

Here's a quick summary of the work Kimi & Chip did on their passive solar geothermal greenhouse in February!

For the first time in their geothermal greenhouse building process, a task goes FASTER than Chip and Kimi expected.

There's a reason folks aren't usually prepping garden beds in January...

Deciding on technology needed for homesteading tasks