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The House Design

Posted on August 5, 2016 by | 7 comments

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We have spent about 2 years on our farm now and are at the point where we are ready to build a house.  It took about that long to get a feel for the best siting and to get various other prerequisite projects completed, such as a barn to store the straw bales.  This has given us some time to think about what we really want.  Here are some of the things we considered in our design.

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Reasons For Trees

Posted on February 12, 2016 by | 4 comments

 

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Have you ever not appreciated something until you didn’t have it?  I have lived in wooded areas most of my life, but never really thought about trees and the benefit of trees until we moved to Colorado.  Sure we lived in a Ponderosa Pine forest, but it was a dry climate and not much else grew.  The ranches there were dry with a rare tree in the pastures. It wasn’t until we moved to southern Missouri and saw the variety of trees that grow here that I started to think about all the benefits wooded areas on your homestead or farm brings.  

Trees are beautiful and majestic, but their benefits are often overlooked. While it is important to keep the woods from taking over pastures, trees are an asset to your farm or homestead.  

Here are Some reasons why you should have trees on your homestead.

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