We sold our home of 20 years on Long Island, took early retirement, and moved to the 135 acres in the Adirondacks where we are building an off grid earth she...
We had a blowout in the concrete dome when the foam backstop failed during the shotcrete process. The outside of the dome was fixed and is already waterproof...
We are finally finished waterproofing the concrete dome with the W.R.Meadows Clay-Tite waterproofing membrane. It took 26 days from start to finish and the q...
An update on where we are at with our off-grid green roof buried house and homestead build!▬ *AFFILIATE LINKS for products SPECIFICALLY FEATURED or used IN t...
We decided to selectively log our land and today we are going to answer why we chose, how we chose our loggers, what we learned, and if it was worth it!CHAPT...
Our private road/driveway is cleared! That means we have officially started building our retirement homestead! We are so excited!This is a really big endeavo...
Acting as our own general contractor means we sometimes are waiting for help to be available, but when they say they are coming we can't say no because who k...
Today we are sharing the total cost of our septic system including testing, engineered blueprints, and installation of the concrete septic tank and drain fie...
We met our homesteading mini-goal of getting an ATV to get around our land with!
Kathie is learning to change the oil in our Harbor Freight Predator 3500 Watt generator. The oil needs to be changed every 100 hours and living off-grid that...
A visit to the Adirondack Experience - the Museum on Blue Mountain Lake in August of 2021. You can see the history of the Adirondacks from so many different ...
We are plugging along with our off grid build - we new have new deadlines, we are chasing the bubble to keep it all level, and all the little things are suck...
A review of the Coghlans bug jackets and what how it works to stop the bugs from biting you!Bugs are a huge problem in the Adirondacks and we are always look...
Our Huge Engineered RETAINING WALLS for our Off-Grid Green Roof DOME Home are DONE and today we are sharing the process from beginning to end and answering q...
We rented a manlift to waterproof the higher areas of the off grid concrete green roof dome home. There's definitely a learning curve (pun intended) because ...
Our massive engineered retaining walls for our green roof earth sheltered home are ready for concrete to be poured! Be sure to like, comment and subscribe (a...
Learning the limitations of the man lift and discrepancies with the membrane as we waterproof our off grid concrete dome home.▬ *AFFILIATE LINKS for products...
The Shotcrete crew is in town to repair the concrete dome inside and out....will we be happy with the results? What comes next?PLAYLIST: https://youtube.com/...
Maple Plywood Board & Batten - Challenge Accepted! Off-Grid Build in the...
Will this work? Today we are trying to plow the DEEP SNOW on our 700' driveway with Kubota B2650 Loader.Music: Let Us Go Back by Tomas Skyldeberg▬ ABOUT US ▬...
