Shed Platform is complete For those of you that have been following this saga, you might notice the lack of water tanks. As Sarah and I began to plot the platform design, we thought how great it would be to have the entire shed space for working and storing. She recomended that we add another section in the future when we are ready to farm fish. More building is always a good idea and more covered space is as well. There is also the difficulty in my initial plan to work around the tanks. ...

Water barrel heat sink Progress is great! We have gotten a great deal done since our last post. Here is the to-do list from our last post: Cut chimney pipe hole Build 55 gallon barrel stove and run chimney pipe out back wall or through roof Build back shed Install vent fan Wire in a few outlets and lights Cut hole for wind turbine mounting pipe Install wind turbine and all its components turbine control board inverter batteries/charge control We have completed only the barrel stove on this...

Pallet Firewood shed built into a hill Last summer, we built a pallet firewood shed in the backyard. It is 8ft x 8ft x 8ft. This holds about 4 cord of wood. I believe we have it stocked with about 3.5 cord. Given we burned close to five last year, we had to go and get wood from the Abby of Regina Laudis or beg acquaintances to deliver wood mid winter. This led to hastle and stress during the winter. One minor example was having about a day's worth of dry wood remaining on the farm, we had...