Hello fellow earthlings! I just purchased my first house in May in the Austin, Tx area and I'm over the moon putting together the very very beginnings of garden with homestead-tendencies (and we'll see how far I can go with a typical suburban house situation...minus the HOA, yay!. I currently volunteer at the Festival Beach Food Forest and would LOVE to maybe hopefully meet people here and also in person in the Austin area to share garden joys, talk about similar values around earth care/people care/future care etc. :)

Hi All, I am new here but already loving the like-minded community! I am a child of Africa but have been living in the UK for 10 years and am trying to get back to nature and the land. I am finding it really difficult with all the laws and costs in the UK so if there are any fellow Brits on here, I would love to hear from you.

We are getting ready to plant 100 onions! We are also going to plant potatoes in this area. There are some fruit trees established in this area, but the pine tree roots were horrible. Tomorrow... we begin the ground breaking in the third picture for the corn, pumpkin, and green beans. We purchased a paw paw tree to plant in this area also.

We finally got electricity! Yaya! So... we immediately jumped in and started building the greenhouse three feet deep buried on 3/4ths the sides of it. We stair stepped the one side of the greenhouse as it slopes down into the greenhouse on the NW side of it. We are hanging shade clothes up on that side as well as the Florida sun will beam heavily in from that direction in the summer time.

We finally got a pass from the electric company. She was speaking in circles for months and finally someone stepped in and told her enough. We won! We get scheduled this week for three poles and wired in from street into the property.