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affordable: Homesteading Part 3: Harnessing the Sun and the Wind - 03/15/09 07:14 PM
If you've read my previous blog posts, you already know that I live and work off the grid in an earthship that my husband and I built ourselves.  We have also conquered the challenges of gardening in our very rocky ground. (See: Homesteading Part 1: Less is More and Homesteading Part 2: High Desert Gardening )  This post will address that "off the grid" part of homesteading.
Living off the grid has been a very liberating experience for us.  While my husband and I have lived off the grid for the past five years, neither of us consider ourselves experts in … (3 comments)

affordable: Everything I needed to know about Real Estate I learned by Homesteading! - 03/04/09 09:15 PM
Okay, maybe not everything, but I've certainly been able to apply much of what I've learned through my own experiences in Homesteading to Real Estate.  How, you ask?
You've heard the old adage, ‘you learn from your mistakes'.  Sometimes, you learn from the mistakes of others as well.  For instance, when my husband and I purchased our high desert property, our agent (who also happened to be the listing agent) did not do the following:
1.  She did not ask us what our intended use for the property would be.
2.  She did not inform us of the myriad of inspections available to … (4 comments)

affordable: Homesteading Part 1: Less is More - 02/23/09 03:08 PM
How do you keep your head above water in today's economy?  Unless you're a self-made millionaire (I'm not!), it's certainly not easy.  Years ago my husband and I decided on a pretty significant lifestyle change.  If we were really going to change, we had to reassess our needs and wants.  We wanted to live more simply and be as self-sustaining as possible.  We did not want to get up and head out to corporate America every morning. We did not want a mortgage or car payment.  We wanted 40+ acres to call our own.  Our basic needs were simple: a roof over … (7 comments)

affordable: Beautiful, diverse, northeastern Arizona! - 02/22/09 06:03 PM
This beautiful, little known, area of northeastern Arizona called the White Mountains.  I talked a little about it on my profile... it is a very diverse and beautiful area, with a little something for everyone.  It encompasses most of Navajo and Apache Counties, and ranges from 5000 ft up to 8500 ft in elevation.  We've got high desert with its rolling hills (knolls, really), grassy with a various assortment of high desert vegetation and juniper and cedar trees.  (My daughter calls them big bushes.)  We also have mountainous regions of ponderosa pine and aspen trees.  
             
Outdoor recreation?  You name it, we've got it.  Hiking, biking, trail … (3 comments)

 

Karen Ingersoll

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