To increase our resilience -- especially here in wildfire country -- we are creating a gravity-fed water system. This project has given me a personal metric for valuing the energy packed into fossil fuels. When I dug up 76 feet of existing water pipe buried about 18 inches … [Read more...]

Jay recently spent a week with us, a hard-working week where we assembled 1400 feet of water pipe, built an earthen platform for water tanks, and chainsawed a few trees hanging over the road. Jay is one of our teachers. He lives within the smallest footprint of anyone we … [Read more...]