Our New Passive Solar Green House under construction

We have been wanting a green house here on our homestead for years so we decided that this was the time to go forward with it... and it coming along very quickly.. My Hubby is building it all by himself and with a little help from me.... which is me handing him boards and such... This  green house will be the new center piece of our self sufficient lifestyle, providing us with a place to grow rabbits, mushrooms, veggies, and herbs. It will contain a shed that will also provide us with a new heated milking room and a processing kitchen on one side to process vegetables, for canning and cheese making. . This green house will not need additional heat throughout the winter and will provide it's own heat and it's own electricity via solar panels. If you would like to see more updates on our green house (I am slow about updating my blog) facebook seems easier... here is a link to my page on facebook...  https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.768904499787645.1073741836.419904478020984&type=1

Back to Blogging Again..

Hello Friends! I know I haven't posted in awhile but we had a major set back last year when my Father-in-law passed away..It all changed overnight... The quiet simple life we once knew .ceased to exist. My Father-in-law had cancer and my Mother-in-law is very sick so we are now caring for her. We all couldn't live in our little cabin so now we are living in the big house at the front of our farm... My Mother-in-law also has a flower shop in town with an apartment and also a convenient store/gas station for use to tend to ... We ran the flower shop for several months but we couldn't stand living in the city...even if it is a very small city... it was not the life for us... so we decided to close the flower shop and we will be selling the convenient store and the flower shop hopefully by summer..  I still say the more "stuff" you have the more problems you have... and now we have a lot more "stuff" to attend to. Along with caring for my Mother-in-law we now have both of our lives to take care of... including taxes and property etc.... which turned our simple life into not such a simple life..but we are about to get things back in order...although we can't live in our little cabin at the present time it is still on our farm and we can stay there a lot until at least dark,...lol.. my Mother-in-law is super scared of the dark.. We are all adjusting well to the new situation and all is good.

                             We Live here now and all is good

                                             
                           but we hope to someday get back to this

Even though we do live in a bigger house now and things are different...we still live a simpler lifestyle than most... I make most everything from scratch...we grow most of own food and can lots of jars of food for our pantry to last the winter. We have meat rabbits and we hunt deer for our meat.. we have a milk cow for milk and dairy products and we forage for mushrooms etc.
We are now in the process of building a green house so that we can extend our growing season.  Things are getting back on track slowly but surely.