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Excavating to build an earth-bermed solar geothermal greenhouse.

Kimi and Chip offer to host a barn-raising!

Chip and Kimi set up a tipi for winter living in the high New Mexico desert.

Kimi and Chip ready themselves for cold in the nick of time.

Kimi and Chip bought a house!

Kimi and Chip learn that in New Mexico fall is marked not by orange leaves, but by green chile!

Kimi and Chip marry, host guests, fest, ferment, and work as cross-state and cross-country movers. When will they settle down??

Kimi and Chip re-think initial building plans as summer relentlessly marches toward fall...

The true meaning of "food desert" is health and strength!

Sorry, Ike fans, but this post has nothing to do with dogs…! There is an organization called World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms...

How do you live off the "water grid?"

Water: a force in the high desert!

Our faithful companion was hurt today! We think he'll be OK, but please send Ike healing thoughts.

What will Chip and Kimi build?

Here's where we are living until we can get something more permanent built...

Kimi and Chip worry about Ike's adjustment to his new surroundings.

Kimi and Chip take their first tentative steps toward partnering with the land to slow erosion.

After two years of planning, months of prep and three days of driving, we are home!