Spring Plans

Ta-da!
I know this doesn't look impressive YET.
It's just the bare bones, but when we add in the glass from below...

Free large windows we acquired for free last January.
Those together will equal one nice sized green house.
We can finally get some good starts on pepper and tomatoes!

We added in a large pool with fountain and will be building a duck house under the old playhouse where we will be adding in 3 ducks.
Females to start, we may add in a male in a year or so but we want to see how much we love them first.

We have also ordered in our Carniolan Bees that will be going into our top bar hive.
I don't have a photo of the top bar done and right now its covered with a tarp to keep it until we can put the bee's into it.
In a few months when they arrive I will.

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Most items you see used in our projects have been sourced (scavenged) locally.
Reusing, reclaiming, re-purposing and of course keeping our life on budget.
Even the deep large pool I was able to pick up from my local township page - she needed to get rid of 3 and I was able to get the largest one!
The large wall beams are found for free at a local tile company.
Bricks we've been able to find on the township page as well.
Things people bought for projects never built that they need out of the way of what they're doing now.

There are 2 ways to Homestead

1. Make tons of money on things you sell from your homestead and sell them often.
Soaps, lotions, candles, honey, food, animals etc.
2. Scavenge

There are few exceptions to those 2 ways.