by Victoria Gazeley | Jul 30, 2012 | Rural Living Skills
I love all things ‘design’. It’s how I make my living . But sometimes, living in the country in the way we call ‘modern homesteading’ requires a more practical bent. When it comes to heating a rural home, you can’t really take any...
by Victoria Gazeley | Jun 17, 2012 | About Us, From City to Country, Lessons, Mentoring, Rural Living Skills
I’m looking out my office window at the foundation of the new addition we’re building onto our little cabin. Or really, that my Dad is building as I keep working so I can pay for it. And it’s got me to thinking about where we’d be without his...
by Victoria Gazeley | Jan 30, 2012 | Animals, Emergency Preparedness, From City to Country, Home Business from the Homestead, Lessons, Livestock, Pests, Rural Living Skills, Wildlife
If you can count on me for anything, it’s to give you the straight goods on country living. No fluff. You’re not going to find me waxing poetic about how la-de-da wonderful everything is every moment of every day – especially when it comes to the...
by Victoria Gazeley | Dec 15, 2011 | Homestead Planning, Permaculture, Rural Living Skills
An architect, a midwife and a geophysicist walk into a room… No, it’s not the beginning of a witty joke. It’s what I experienced yesterday as I began my year-long journey into the world of Permaculture design. If you’ve never heard of...
by Victoria Gazeley | Aug 27, 2011 | Construction, Materials, Repair, Rural Living Skills
There’s something about rustic shakes or more refined shingles that just screams ‘country charm’. From old New England cottages to sprawling West Coast estates and tiny rural cabins and outbuildings in the Rockies, wood shakes and shingles have a...
by Victoria Gazeley | Aug 22, 2011 | Emergency Preparedness, Food Storage, From City to Country, Lessons
There are days that I wonder what I was thinking by trying to do this modern homesteading thing on my own. Like this past week. There I was, having not been sick at all for at least a year, finally feeling human again after more than a week of being unable to walk...
