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I just wanted to say Happy New Year to everyone. This is my favorite forum. I've met nothing but kind helpful people here and I wish I had more time in the day to spend here. I also wanted to show what I'm getting done with the sun room I'm building and how an aircrete block (foam and cement...

Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Year. This is the first year I have been here and just want to say I have met nothing but good and kind people here and no drama. May you all have a happy, prosperous and wonderful new year. Good health and God bless.

Merry Christmas everybody, hope it was a good one. This is a log cabin I built when I was a teen. I started when I was 12 years old back in 1972 and finally finished it in 1976, when I was 16. We had Christmas dinner with family at the farm and after dinner we went over to the back side of the...

This is what I did to get water from the spring to the living quarters we built in our pole barn building. It is a pretty simple solution but it seems to work pretty good but I plan to improve it, one thing will be to put larger pipe coming down hill for a ways to help increase the pressure...

Here is my finished through the wall flue for my rocket mass heater. I will probably be using a barrel stove until I get the floor done but I will need heat to do that. Also experimenting with aircrete to prevent slumping? collapsing before it sets up. Thanks for watching.

This is what I am doing to go through the wall with my flue. I will probably use black single wall inside and insulated pipe outside. This setup will be for a wood stove temporarily to heat a large sun room until I can build an aircrete sub-floor with a hard finish on top. Then I can build a...

Well I finally got around to making my foam generator so now I can finally make some aircrete. I plan to make an insulated sub floor for like 1/2 the price of blue foam and then cover with 1 or 2 inches of harder concrete or maybe an earthen floor, that will act as a heat sink when the sun shins...

I would guess this is pretty much off topic. Here is a cave I just visited and years ago my son and I went on a wild cave tour offered by the park. I don't know if they still offer tours but you can get a hold of Rock Bridge State Park in Columbia Mo. to find out. The Devil's Icebox is the name...

I got pretty hot planting spinach for over winter so I decided to go swimming in my cement pond. Its been 7 years since I made it and its still in really good shape despite freezing weather in winter. I did everything myself and it cost a little over $600 to make. Its pretty large too, 52 ft...

Hey everyone, How was every ones's fruit harvest this year? I didn't get but very few apples, maybe two peaches but I did get a lot of pears so I guess I'd better just be thankful for that. We canned and dehydrated them and all the blemished or small ones we broke out Dad's old cider press and...

I know this is not traditional kimchi and its not real a recipe I have or went by, Its more like something I just threw together but it tastes real good but the main thing is the probiotics. It has been fermenting for 4 days and seems to have fermented really quickly because I used some...

Hey guys, Here is an update on my spring fed IBC container shower. I had bought a propane on demand heater but failed to get it to work so I decided to rig up an old gas water heater to get things heated up with wood heat.I think I like this solution better but may refine it to make it more...

Just got home from making a video of our property in the Ozarks and it sure was hot but with my redneck air conditioner we were able to sleep pretty good and the best thing is it was free, well to run anyway. This was a trial run so its pretty much hob cobbed together and while it was not cold...

Hey folks I just finished my video on my new outdoor shower I made from an IBC tote and will run it off of my spring that is up the hill.I have an on demand water heater but so far have failed to get it to work. I tried bigger gas hose, adjusting the water flow, using a 12v pump for more...

I know this is pretty redneck but I really needed a tool box and I just can't afford one right now and I was cleaning up the yard. I had an old refrigerator, a small one with one single door and it even looked kinda like a big tool box. Well I could have scrapped it for a dollar or two or make...

Finally got my video up of Bakers Creek. If you don't know about Bakers Creek Seed it a really cool place to visit and you can buy a large variety of heirloom seeds no GMO's. Every year the have a spring planting festible the first Sunday and Monday in May with over 10,000 visitors I think they...

Hey fellow homesteaders I just finished my 2nd video on my plastic barrel canoe re-build, and I want to apologize for the sound quality, just using my crappy Wally World cell phone but its not all bad and I think I have some good footage. I haven't been at this forum long but you all seem like...

I made a canoe out of plastic barrels that I would like to share but not sure how to upload a picture on here and because I am new to this forum I don't think I Am allowed to put a link to my youtube channel but the name of my channel is ( Little beaver Creek Homestead william e ) pretty long I...

Anyone ever use wood chips in the garden? I really love my back to Eden Garden. The wood chips have added so much organic matter, worms and microbes that its totally different soil. I also recommend adding a good source of trace minerals like Azomite. If any one has seen the first Back To Eden...

I live in mid Missouri now and plan to move to southern Mo. and build an off grid homestead on 60 raw acres in the Ozarks. I plan to document everything on video Via my youtube channel (Little beaver Creek Homestead) I plan to build a pallet cob house, spring development for a water source, a...