We put off collecting the rest of our neighbor's scrap cardboard all Winter and part of the Spring in hopes of things drying out a bit.

It finally felt dry enough yesterday, which is a good thing because the new owners start moving in next month, and our agreement was to get it out of there before that happens.

We're going to miss trading eggs for manure, but I'm already hunting alternative sources close by.

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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



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