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Plumbing our off-grid sustainable house using rainwater catchment, greywater / blackwater, and worm septic system

Our tire bale house now has an installed, approved, and running off-grid solar utility!

Kimi and Chip work on getting the interior walls sealed in their tire bale home.

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

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!

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

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

A weather-induced break from building lets us catch up on a few other aspects of life

Kimi and Chip offer to host a barn-raising!

Chip and Kimi set up a tipi for winter living in the high New Mexico desert.

Kimi and Chip ready themselves for cold in the nick of time.

Kimi and Chip bought a house!

Kimi and Chip marry, host guests, fest, ferment, and work as cross-state and cross-country movers. When will they settle down??

Kimi and Chip re-think initial building plans as summer relentlessly marches toward fall...

How do you live off the "water grid?"

What will Chip and Kimi build?

Here's where we are living until we can get something more permanent built...

Kimi and Chip worry about Ike's adjustment to his new surroundings.