April 6, 2017 Interior walls going up April 5, 2017 Siding and House Wrap April 4, 2017 Roof up April 1, 2017 Insulated subfloor (video) March 30, 2017 Ready for subfloor March 24, 2017 Trusses up March 17, 2017 Studs up March 15, 2017 Steel frame
Tags: Tiny House
People often ask about our unusual lifestyle….owning a fish farm but also tinkering in other endeavors like aquaponics, permaculture, and hosting guests from all over the world. We have never defined our outlook on life and career, but this speech from Bill Watterson comes close. Below are excerpts from his speech…. SOME THOUGHTS ON THE REAL WORLD BY ONE WHO GLIMPSED IT AND FLED Bill Watterson Kenyon College Commencement May 20, 1990 You will find your own ethical dilemmas in […]
Tags: Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
John visited a kindergarten class in Sanger, California. The students enjoyed meeting Seahawk and Bronco, our four week old twins!
Tags: Goat Chronicles, goats, schools
Today’s guest blogger is our son, Jeremy. “What’s it like to grow up on a farm?” Only a few years ago, I might have answered that farm life was at best bearable and at worst downright misery. But if you were to ask me this question today? I would say – without hesitation or equivocation – that growing up on a farm was by far the best thing that could have ever happened to me, an upbringing I wouldn’t […]
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Today’s blog was written by our son, Matt Young, a Peace Corps volunteer in Zambia. Exactly 23 years ago today my amazing mother was born. (Yes, she had me at the tender age of negative-2 — don’t judge.) Over the past few days I’ve been helping my mom work on the website, Little House on the Fish Farm, my parents’ foray into the up and coming new world of agrotourism (read: sustainability-minded yuppies spending their precious few vacation days learning about […]
Tags: Fishing in Zambia, parenting
Today’s blog was written by our son, Matt Young, a Peace Corps volunteer in Zambia. In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours. -Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success 10,000 hours is a lot of time. By this benchmark, it will take me approximately 821 years to become an expert at peeing while standing up. Longer if my target is a hole the size of my chimbusu. 10,000 hours […]
Tags: Fishing in Zambia, Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success, Peace Corps
Today’s blog was written by our son, Matt Young, a Peace Corps volunteer in Zambia. When I was in college I went to farmer’s markets and shopped in grocery stores that sourced local organic kale and grass-fed beef. The Brussels sprouts grown in Salinas were more expensive than the ones shipped up from Chile, but I didn’t mind. I supplemented my academic curriculum with a steady diet of Michael Pollan, fought off hordes of foodies at Off The Grid Thursdays […]
Tags: Fishing in Zambia, local food, Michael Pollan, slow food movement
Today’s blog was written by our son, Matt Young, a Peace Corps volunteer in Zambia. I’ve always thought it was cool that my dad was in the Peace Corps, but being a volunteer now myself gives me an even greater appreciation for having an RPCV father. Everything I see here sheds light on some aspect of my dad’s character and personality. Everything I do reminds me in some small way of the influence that his service has had in his […]
Tags: Fishing in Zambia, Papua New Guinea, Peace Corps, RPCV, Zambia