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When I left home as a kid I moved to Phoenix and then a series of events caused my family to move to the Tucson area. I spent 11 years in AZ before I got the hare-brained idea to go forth and find myself. It's been an adventure and now I'm ready to go back. Luckily DH's experience will give...

Do you put cooked food into your compost? I've read controversial information about putting any kind of prepared food into the compost. I keep mine to raw vegetation and egg shells. Any prepared food goes to the animals.

I wanted to chime in about AIO vs pockets. Whether it's feminine pads or baby diapers, AIO's need to be washed a couple of times at least depending on the thickness and may require more drying time than pockets. I started making pockets after my last baby was born but became pregnant again...

Ok, so what type of gray water would be suitable? Maybe from the shower? We don't use soap, just BS and ACV to wash our hair and bodies. Same with the laundry. We're moving to AZ so I'm really brainstorming as many water conservation methods to integrate as possible.

Hi! I'm new here too. We're going to be moving to AZ in the late spring and one of the many tasks I am looking forward to is raising rabbits. I'll be moving to the Tucson area. I did a quick google search for meat rabbits around Tucson and didn't come up with very much at all. I know very little...

Last spring I visited a local commune that was starting up. Their main focus was water recycling. They pumped all of their water - including black water - to a greenhouse where they had several tanks for various stages of digestion. Once the water went through all of this treatment it was then...

We got all of our moving boxes from the beer distributor, freecycle and a few from the grocery store the last time we moved. I can only imagine what the neighbors would have thought if we'd tossed all those beer boxes out to the garbage. LOL. Many of them are now composting the ground where we...

I wish we could move now, LOL. But DH needs to find work there first. He's been emailing, faxing and mailing out resumes hand over fist. And if he finds a job that doesn't offer a relocation package then we need to be able to pay for the move ourselves. So we're socking money away the best we...

I can't wait to go to the lake. I have fond memories of that lake from my childhood. That was the lake where I learned how to swim when I was 12. I was a late bloomer, LOL.

As a kid I remember my grandparents diverted their gray water to their apple trees but it was just free-flowing and any time someone ran water in the sink or grandma did a load of laundry the trees would get a drink. I think diverting our gray water to irrigate the garden would be a great way...

I'm sure there's a name for the way we compost but I don't know what it is. We have very rocky ground here so we did everything above ground. First we started out with cardboard. Right after we moved in we had a ton of cardboard boxes and I couldn't justify throwing them in the (gasp) trash...

homesteadmom: Yes, we're looking at a house in Sahuarita. We'll rent until we get established and then start the hunt for property. My sister lives in Three Points and has chickens and one of my uncles lives out in Arivaca and also has chickens. Meat rabbits don't seem to be very popular. I've...

I wrote this shortly after I gave birth... Ok, here's the skinny: I had my appointment with my midwife, Mary, on Friday where we talked about castor oil and sweeping membranes again since just the sweep alone didn't do the trick last time. It was around 1pm after she left that I took the...

DS2 was only 6 months old when I found out I was pregnant again and within two months my milk dried up. I've always heard that goat milk was the best substitute for nearly all mammal milk so I started doing some research. I discovered that between the enzymes, vitamins, minerals and fats, raw...

I'm sorry, I know this is a sensitive topic and I don't mean to offend anyone. It just seems like disability is one of those that the people who really need it don't get it and the people who really don't do. I have a friend who is on disability because she's bi-polar. WTF? I don't know how she...

me&thegals: I would love, love, love to have a garden and that was the plan for this spring but it seems fate had a different idea. Our landlord filed bankruptcy on this property and now it's going to be auctioned off in April. We have decided that this is the time to make our break and get out...

My sister's DH recently became unemployed. They shut off their cable and phone in favor of their cell phones and are cutting corners everywhere they can. My sister went in to apply for food stamps but was denied (I don't know why). Then she went and applied for WIC. She was telling me how the...

We have ferrel cats and a dog so it gets eaten. It's just a shame because it's so expensive. I can't wait until we have our own goats. I'm getting killed buying the milk. It's around $8 a gallon here and we go through about 3 gallons a week.

As with anything, education is key. When you read up on home birth and discover that in many ways it's actually safer than hospital birth then it really helps to dissolve the fears. Home birth is definitely not for everyone but for those of us who are low-risk, it's very safe. Women have been...

Hi, I'm Katie and I'm the mom of three amazing kids, two step-kids and one due in June. We are renting a house in Harrisburg, PA on 10 acres in the woods. We came out here with the intention of raising goats, chickens, rabbits and a garden. We obtained our chickens shortly after we moved here...