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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

The machine returns to save us hours of backbreaking labor!

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

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

Our greenhouse build has been waiting for concrete: for me, a daunting hurdle! I have never done concrete work of any kind, and had a...

Chip and Kimi work through the weather, holiday, and design decisions to build the retaining wall in their geothermal greenhouse.

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

Artful excavation to complete geothermal tube placement for the BrownKawa Homestead greenhouse.

Check out this one day's progress excavating geothermal trenches for the BrownKawa greenhouse!

Wrangling geothermal tubes for our solar greenhouse.