Coffee Chat & Explaining Priorities For The Homestead

A little sit down coffee chat with you guys to explain what is going on out here at the homestead and what my priorities are for the coming weeks.

Many people have been asking questions or getting frustrated with my priorities out here at the off grid homestead.

I know that you cannot fully understand why I do some of the things that I do. So I try to occasionally explain what I am doing at the time and why.

Our food bill was insane until the garden started to produce food for us. Feeding three mouths on a tight budget meant that I did not have anything left over each month for anything else.

When the garden started to provide more than half of our food supplies then our bills went down and I was free to finish some projects around here finally.

So when Marc offered to help me build the greenhouse to save some of our garden plants before the freeze I jumped on it.

Now we have some vegetables out there which are growing. These will offset our food costs somewhat for the winter months.

I hope to get some more vegetables growing once I am done setting it up and getting the heat going in there.

I plan to get the off grid water shed and the tiny house on wheels finished before the snow falls as well. I will put pallet wood shake style siding on the off grid tiny house and horizontal pallet boards on the winter greenhouse.

The water shed needs to be insulated fully and heated. And I will frame in a door for the water shed. This will be a double door like the greenhouse has. And both doors will be insulated.

I have the wood stove in the off grid water shed nearly finished and hopefully all I have to do is get the fire going, load it up and leave it for the night. It burns about 3 hours on a load of wood and emits heat for 5 hours total. This should get us through the night during even the coldest winter nights.

I have my old water boiler wood stove for the greenhouse. I may put that outside the greenhouse and have the plumbing go into the greenhouse to heat up some metal 55 gallon drums of water and antifreeze mix. This should keep the greenhouse above freezing temperatures all winter.

I should be able to fire it up and burn it for an hour or two each evening and then leave it for the night.

I hope this helps clear up some questions people have about my priorities right now.

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Troy
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