We've been putting off building a porch for the back of our trailer since we moved in, which meant we could only use that door with extreme caution.

Last fall we managed to buy enough lumber for an 8x16 deck, but getting started proved to be a challenge due to other pressing projects.

Today we got half way there with the help of a carpenter named Bradley. We were so happy with his work we decided to hire him to also do a roof for the porch. He's charging 100 dollars for the 5 hours of labor required for the deck, and he doesn't mind the long walk across the creek!

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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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