The Burrow is a tiny earthberm house on 1/4 of an acre at the edge of the forest in the Ozark Mountains. We're about 6 miles from town or any sort of store or gas station. We moved here 8 or 9 years ago from a much larger place that was further away from town.
Altho the Burrow is tiny, we all somehow seem to fit and have everything we need : )
Currently I make a living by selling herbal teas and medicinals, my artwork and renting out my small cabin studio.
We do sell eggs, which pays for their corn and eventually plan to sell goats milk and a few goats each year. I'm also planning to sell at the farmers market when I have enough produce to sell and am looking into selling my teas and herbals there as well.
I've found that you really don't need nearly as much money as we've all been led to believe to have what we need, be healthy and, most of all, truly be happy.
I garden for food and medicinals and wildcraft and forage in the forest. I make much of what we use myself and trade, barter and buy second hand as often as possible. I don't shun modern convenience but I'm very interested in the old ways and doing everything by hand. We live very simply by choice, a choice of simplicity, peace and balance :)
Greenhouse Cold Frames (working on) Better Compost Bin Worm Bin (working on) 2 Large Drying Racks (done) New Chicken Tractor / Chick Pen Larger Hutch for Juni (half done) Rabbit Tractor Fence in larger Goat Pen (working on) Enlarge Gardens (done ) Rocks in Chicken Pen (working on) Add on the Henhouse Add on to Goat House Add Milking Room to goat House Build a Milking Stand (working on) Enclose porch (half done) Plant fruit tree Blueberry bush (done) Build a Four Poster Bed for myself Sell at Farmers Market (done)
> 2009 Gardens <
Vegetable Garden
Romaine Lettuce Butter crunch Lettuce Ozark Beauty Strawberries Banana Peppers (Seeds Saved) Wax Peppers (SS) Cayenne Peppers (ss) Green Bell Peppers (ss) Golden Bell Peppers (heirloom) (SS) Mountain Gold Tomatoes (heirloom) (SS) Beefsteak Tomatoes (SS) Tiger Toms (heirloom) (SS) (6 or 7 other heirloom tomatoes that didn't make it) Sweet Vidalia Onions Garlic Crookneck Squash Cantaloupe (never bore fruit) Black Diamond Watermelons (heirloom) Cucumbers Rhubarb Giant Cabbages Blue Lake Green beans (heirloom) Corn (early sunglow) Carrots (danvers) Eggplant (white egg) Marigolds (dwarf)
Herb Garden
Lavender Rosemary Garden Sage Broadleaf Sage Purple Sage White Sage (lost) Russian Sage Oregano Horehound St Johns Wort Echinacea Garlic Chives Chives Chamomile Creeping Thyme German Thyme Anise Hyssop Mugwort Lemon Balm Prairie Sorrel Peppermint Spearmint Garden Mint ? Patchouli (lost) Cat Nip English Mint Ginger Mint
Wildcrafted or Gathered
Mullein Queen Anne's Lace Poke Red Clover Plantain Cat Nip Chicory Dandelions Hickory Yarrow Yucca Sassafras Cinquefoil Dock Ginseng (leaves) (roots) Wild rose Henbit Elderberries Acorns Rose Berries
7 comments:
Lovely....
I really like this.
Oh, I really love it. It is breathtaking. Is it for sale?
I'm here from Mel's place. Hi. I would like to look around more but that lovely little butterfly won't let me scroll down :(
I simply love that! It's so simple, yet absolutely devine!
such a cool picture! it just puts me in a great mood!
<3 Lindsay
this strikes me as very powerful.
(i very much enjoyed the burrow bio to the left...which i either hadn't noticed before or just haven't been here in a while.)
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