Red Bags Rising On Our Arizona Homestead

In today’s episode there are red bags rising on our Arizona homestead, FINALLY!

We are Douglas and Keri and we recently quit our jobs, sold everything, and in September of 2022, after a lot of prayer and research, we took a leap of faith and moved to our off grid homestead property in the high desert of Cochise County, Arizona. Follow along with us as we build our off grid homestead property from scratch with our two rebels, Willow & Zoey and our 16 y/o kitty, Boo, and our newest additions Luna and Ursa!

We are so happy to announce that there are red bags rising on our Arizona homestead! We continue working on the chicken coop and after another several days of very cold and very windy weather, it’s cleared up enough and warmed up enough to get started on our hyperadobe earth bags! We learned a few things today and one of the main things was that it takes a lot more time to fill the bags than we realized. We’ve never actually worked with hyperadobe bags, just watched a lot of videos of it. We knew that it was all labor involved and the bags were a tiny bit harder to work with than we anticipated. Although, our first “course” (also called a layer or a row) had a lot of things to work around like the plumbing and all of the rebar sticking up out of the foundation. Once you place the bag, it’s not super easy to move around because it’s heavy and you also don’t want to snag the bag.

Also, we realized that any rough edges on our bucket or bucket dolly needed to be covered with duct tape because they can easily snag the bag. Once the bag is snagged, its difficult to work with because the snag will continue to run and it’s hard to fix. The second time this happened, we went ahead and cut the bag and started a new bag which seems to be the best solution.

We also had an email telling us that our chicks that we ordered for delivery the week of March 27th will be shipping on March 6th instead…YIKES! So, now we are a little stressed about getting this done in time, but we are going to do our best because where would we put 40 chicks and 6 guinea fowl in our trailer ha ha!!!

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