Homestead work

Here are some pictures of several of the projects we've been working on this summer. It has gone by in a blur.

New Arctic Entry. It will be a nice big room to hang coats, snowpants, boots, shoes, etc.

Root Cellar in the crawl space of the Arctic Entry.

We had a pretty good garden this year for the lack of sun light. There was no lack of rain. I think we only had to water a dozen times or so... We got about 8 bushels of Cabbage.

About 25 gallons of Carrots...

Maybe 250 pounds of potatoes from our garden, and about 300 pounds from a farm we dug potatoes at in Delta Junction. About 6 Bushels of Celery...

1.5 Bushels of Onions, and a large white pumpkin. We actually grew several ears of sweet corn, lots of beets, radishes, tomatoes, lettuce, jalopeno, cayane, and sweet peppers, squash, zuchini, etc. too!

We tore apart our log greenhouse this summer. I used the clear roof panels to put a roof over our front porch and basement door. It was so wet a few times this summer that water was splashing off the deck and leaking through by one window and puddling up in the basement stairs and leaking inside. We plan to make a lean to green house that is about 36x20 on the south side of the garage next spring.

In the background is our current greenhouse. It was a garage in a box we used last winter for the car. We put clear plastic over it and used it for a greenhouse this summer. It did quite well. This is how far I was on the garage last week. I finished the 10' walls last weekend and it was too dark to get pictures.

Here is another view of the garage.




This is a picture of the garden and front circle areas. I pushed all the stumps out with the dozer and removed most of the roots. This will make our garden area about 4 times larger than it is now...