How To Fill Your Raised Garden Beds

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🍁 Off-Grid in 30 Days - Building an off-grid home for less than $25k
🏕️ Episode 1: Canvas Tent, Clearing Brush, & Ordering the Cabin Shell
💧 Episode 2: Solar Panel, Water Pumps, IBC Totes, Composting Toilet, Methane Digester
🪴 Episode 3: Green House, Raised Beds, Seed Cells, Cabin Arrival
🏡 Episode 4: The 200 square ft Micro Cabin shell tour - inside and out!
🐓 Episode 5: Building a Chicken Coop for $50!
🏕️ Episode 6: Finishing the inside of the canvas bell tent
🐑 Episode 7: Insulating the cabin with Havelock Sheep's Wool
📐 Episode 8: Installing LVP flooring inside the cabin
🌧 Episode 9: Rainwater Catchment System + FirstFlush Diverter & Water Tank
🪵 Episode 10: Installing Plywood siding inside the cabin
🔥 Episode 11: Installing the Dwarf Wood Stove from Tiny Wood Stoves
🌿 Episode 12: Filling & Fertilizing Our Birdies Raised Gardening Beds

Welcome to our 30 day off-grid build for October of 2023! We’re assembling sustainable, affordable, off-grid systems to provide for the 5 basic physiological needs for 2-4 humans: Creative shelter, fresh water, green sanitation, clean energy, and local food are things that make the world truly better and more enjoyable. Beyond having fun building all of this and sharing it with you, one big goal for this project is to clearly illustrate how creative & sustainable solutions can solve our housing affordability crisis and free young people to avoid working paycheck to paycheck to survive in our modern economy. We need a fresh vision for living well! Many people are seeking a closer connection to nature, a slower pace of life, an affordable lifestyle, a sustainable lifestyle, and freedom from being indentured to our modern economic system. Mostly though, we just love building off-grid systems!

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We’re proud to to have partnerships and sponsorships with these innovative companies. We only use and promote products we truly believe in for off-grid living. These tools allow us to live more sustainably and affordably.

We want to reclaim our time, our health, and finances, and a sense of peace. We want to help you and millions of others do the same. This takes designing our lives to be more local, more sustainable, more affordable and generally more off-grid. We want to swim out of the mainstream, we want to opt-out, slow down, to live more simply and locally. We want to educate as many people as we can about this affordable and sustainable lifestyle of living well with decentralized, off-grid systems.

Nothing beats hands on experience, but for many, these ideas and practices may be first best introduced through a video game medium. That is why we are creating HomeFree! Follow this kickstarter project to help it come to life! 🕹️ 🧑‍🌾

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[theoriginalmonstermaker]

I used to live in BC; A couple hippy buddies and myself knew an old dude with 10 acres of INSANE (but completely inaccessible) land, out on one of the small islands surrounding Vancouver Island... it was 2 ferries, and a 4 hr hike through the woods, just to get there.

But over the decades he owned the land, he slowly added amenities that made it the most unique and beautiful place I've ever spent time in my life: it started w a small cabin, then a huge outdoor kitchen/ deck (including old school wood burning stove); 4 old claw- footed bath tubs, lined out on the shoreline of rocks (which we filled w ocean water, built fires beneath, and had heated baths with probably the most majestic view of the west coast possible); a built in, stone lined shower (carved into hillside, and lined with chunks of slate), heated and powered by 2 barrels of water, river filled and heated with camp fires, 50ft above shower, to send down pressurized, warm water (though it was a solid 2 hr effort); FINALLY the first summer the group of us was there, we built a 4 story "tree house" that became our residence for the following years....

The following 2 summers, we selected massive areas of the woods (typically half prepared by trees naturally fallen in convenient layout); then, using this "huegelculture" method (and an IMMENSE amount of time and energy), we produced 4 enormous beds that we eventually grew beautiful crops of "medecine" ; )

... one of the most memorable periods of my life. I wish every decent human being had the opportunity to spend a week out there. Life changing.

[catherinehall]

Love that you are working with Epic. I respect him and what he’s done so much.
I believe in what you are doing at the lab and on the experimental property.
Cannot wait to watch what you do next.

[loganpreskar]

I wish you would have made the videos longer, and would have said tips for a compost pile. Love the videos though

[ellasheridan]

Is it possible/good idea to put bones in the outer drum when making the biochar? I figure it would save having to light two fires at separate times.

[garrett_bruh]

I'd for sure join this compound lmao

[nicknarwold]

Where do you guys get the pig and deer bones for your bone meal?

[LaineyBug]

2:45 be very careful when working with bone dust, that stuff is a nightmare on your lungs! You want to be around for your kids and grandkids as long as possible!