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Posts from ‘February, 2009’

Letting permaculture design the home and garden

Lately, I’ve been thinking quite a bit about my ‘warren’ (read: my plot of space here at Dancing Rabbit). It’s something like 2500 square feet. With all that I want to do, the space is feeling smaller and smaller.
First, there’s the cob house, which takes up 360 of those square feet or so, positioned in [...]

Cob House Building Work Exchange for Spring 2009

Once again, I am seeking help to finish building my cob house this spring.
Get all the juicy details here: Cob house building work exchange
Last year I had a lot of fun and success hosting a number of folks, and I’m hoping for more of the same this year. Thanks!

Thinking more about raising goats

I think that getting and raising some goats is a real possibility for this year. Our good friends at the Possibility Alliance have three pregnant Alpine goats which are due to birth this April. They’ll have up to nine kids to deal with, one of which they want to keep, and it seems likely there [...]