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Hello. We're Shiva and Kala. Welcome to our occasionally updated blog! On here we'd like to share a bit about ourselves and our adventures in homesteading. We've moved to North Carolina and very busy rearranging our lives to live off the land. We're still rather new to homesteading, but eager to learn and share what we are learning. These are strange times we are living in, but we believe they hold plenty of promise along with the peril. If you are new to our blog, we recommend reading the article Preparing for Change for a good introduction to what this is all about. -
Kala has recently been diagnosed with stage 3 endometrial cancer. We are pursuing alternative cancer therapies with an experienced Naturopath. She is doing really well and we are very confident that she will have a full recovery. We are currently accepting donations to help defray the cost of her treatment which is not covered by insurance. If you would like to donate just click the button below. It is much appreciated!
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Partying with the Neighbors!
Had a great time yesterday at a Beltaine celebration at Earthaven Ecovillage. There was a maypole and a ritual lighting of the “belfire”. Traditionally all the fires in a village would be put out and a community fire lit. Then … Continue reading
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Learning to Eat Locally
As part of my lifestyle change I am learning to be a locavore….this means shopping for food that has been locally grown and not been shipped vast distances. Luckily Asheville is a wonderful place for locavore eating. Even many of … Continue reading
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A Letter Sent
“That doesn’t mean that we’re all going to move into cozy lifeboat ecovillages, or any of the other green-painted Levittowns that fill so much space in so many middle class fantasies today. It means, rather, that in the decades ahead … Continue reading
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Having Fun Inexpensively
As most of my income is going into building our homestead we have had to radically cut back on our expenditures…the first thing to go is spending money on recreation..for us this means less eating out, less traveling and far … Continue reading
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Loving the Freecycle
I have a new hobby: getting stuff on freecycle. Freecycle is an online list where people give away thing for free. To find one near you google “freecycle, your town”. They are set up kind of clunky using yahoo groups, … Continue reading
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Getting Ready to Plant!
This year we are going for it with our garden. In the past I have lived in temporary places that I knew that I would not stay at so I was never inspired to build the soil and infrastructure of … Continue reading
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Powertools!
A friend was visiting the area and had his chainsaw with him. We agreed to do a work exchange and he helped me in clearing out some of the trees to make room for our yurt which we will be … Continue reading
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The Promise of Permaculture
We’ve started working on our land regularly and it is HARD work!! Easily the hardest work that I’ve ever done..but it feels good. I’m getting in shape and I know that everything I do to improve the place is something … Continue reading
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Moved to North Carolina!
Well it has been far too long since this site was updated, but I’m going to make a go of it in trying to keep it more updated. We’ve moved to a small town near Asheville, NC and really digging … Continue reading
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Update
So I’m a big news reader and of course the biggest news these days is the economic crash. And like it or not this is BIG news. It’s hard to keep my eyes off it, but I’ve been focusing on … Continue reading
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