Chickens and Goats

With the garden planted I am ready to move on to chickens and goats. My landlady told me I could put the goats in the empty brush filled lot next door to the house!!!! Everything is unfolding perfectly.

I am thinking I could build a little earthbag building in the lot next door. It would be in the shape of a dome, but I could texturize it with ledges and such to make it a goat mountain!!! Then I could fence in the lot and it could function as the goat yard/habitat.

Top Bar Beekeeping

Here are my bees:

Solar Food Dehydrator

Here is a link to a DIY solar food dryer : http://www.pathtofreedom.com/pathproject/offthegrid/solarfooddryer.shtml

Be Your Own Herbal Expert

This is a free 8 part course by Susun Weed on learning herbal medicine.

Here is her online magazine.

Cool Links

A cool site with info about tipis, yurts, and domes
Tons of info on yurts.
A guy in his yurt.
This site has useful stuff like a prefab kitchen/bath house. Perfect for use with yurt or tipi setup.
Great off the grid seller with awesome costumer support.

Solar Thermal Water Heater For Less Than Five Dollars

CLICK HERE

Essentials Oils to Repel Bugs

Essential Education:

Essentials Oils to Repel Bugs

For plants infested with insects, use one of the following essential oils. Fill a mist spray bottle with 4 oz. of water, add the essential oils and mist the infested plant. Use as little as possible. Several applications, a few days apart, may be necessary.

ANTS Peppermint Spearmint

APHIDS Cedarwood Hyssop Peppermint Spearmint

BEETLES Peppermint Thyme

CATERPILLARS Spearmint Peppermint

CHIGGERS Lavender Lemongrass Sage Thyme

CUTWORM Thyme Sage

FLEAS Peppermint Lemongrass Spearmint Lavender

FLIES Lavender Peppermint Rosemary Sage

GNATS Patchouli Spearmint

LICE Cedarwood Peppermint Spearmint

MOSQUITOES Lavender Lemongrass

MOTHS Cedarwood Hyssop Lavender Peppermint Spearmint

PLANT LICE Peppermint Spearmint

SLUGS Cedarwood Hyssop Pine

SNAILS Cedarwood Pine Patchouli

SPIDERS Peppermint Spearmint

TICKS Lavender Lemongrass Sage Thyme

WEEVILS Cedarwood Patchouli Sandalwood