Actuating Sustainability
What’s happening in my life
The timber frame workshop was in the local news paper, The Memphis Democrat. Yours truly at the top of this photo with Illly and Rae, my good friends whose home we were building.
Had a blast, learned lots of new skills (if I can retain any is a different story), and have been meeting loads of amazing people here at Dancing Rabbit.
Well, I am finally back home after a month at Spreadwing’s farm internship. This is an Organic farm ran by Michael G. Smith, natural builder extraordinaire, and his wife Cathy, homesteader of the year in my book. Together this couple is a treasure trove of natural building, farming, animal husbandry, food preservation and the list…
I’ve been interning here at Spreadwing farm for about two and a half weeks. Under two more weeks to go and back home it is. One of my daily duties here comprise of caring for chickens, about eighty of them. They are great fun as there are three age groups. We have the older…
As you might recall, Erin and I almost did a farm internship for a couple of months. This was with Michael G. Smith of Spreadwing farm, a well known natural builder and all around great guy. I first met Michael while taking a week long Natural Building Intensive he co-taught. Well, after talking about alternate…
After twelve hours this intrepid two man crew moved us in to our new place
So, we’ve been house-less for about a month and a half now. Not as bad as you might think. We have money saved, jobs, and all our stuff; just not a house to rest in at night. We had decided to move up north, but it just has not worked out. Erin’s work has been featured on, not one, but two very popular photography pages and is getting lots of requests for photo shoots, so it does not seem logical to uproot right now.
We almost did a four month internship with Michael G. Smith. Organic farmer, natural builder extraordinaire, and all around great person. However, after three days helping out at the farm, we realized it would not work out with our current job arrangements so had to put that on the back burner.
Now, even though our friends are being more than supportive and the fifth wheel is safely stored, we are feeling the pressure of not having a place of our own. Luckily it looks as though starting April, we’ll have a new place. This is still off grid but has solar panels and city water. It looks very promising and has a horse stable with an old, mostly gutted, airstream (kind of like this one) and random structures on it. I can make it work and will have a blast in the process.
For now though, I am blessed to have a wonderfull wife and puppy. So home is where the heart is…
