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high desert: 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)
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high desert: 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)
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high desert: White Mountain sampler! - 03/01/09 02:54 PM
I've talked so much about the area that I thought I'd provide a small sample of the types of land/properties currently for sale in the White Mountains:
1.25 Acres $74,900 water/power Homes Only Heber, Ariz
1.67 Acres $85,000 water/power Homes Only Linden, Ariz
1.0 Acres $99,000 water/power Homes Only Lakeside, Ariz
38.10 Acres $59,000 Owner May Carry Vernon, Ariz
78.44 Acres $99,000 Power Concho, Ariz
20 Acres $22,000 Heber, Ariz
40 Acres $25,000 Snowflake, Ariz
Of course, there are many, many types of properties from high end to least expensive. Call me … (2 comments)
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high desert: Homesteading Part 2: High Desert Gardening - 02/28/09 08:04 PM
Our food supply has been corrupted. It seems that every few weeks there is yet another report of e-coli in our beef, salmonella in our peanut butter, or melamine in baby formula. Did you know that almost all corn, rice, and wheat grown in this country has been genetically modified (GMO)? So have many of our fruits and vegetables. Most European countries have banned GMO foods and yet our cows, chickens, and pigs are fed these GMO grains (and so are we!). High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) is in just about everything. Despite the television commercials doing their best to convince … (6 comments)
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high desert: 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)
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Karen Ingersoll
Snowflake,
AZ
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