Entries Tagged as ‘Saving (Money & the Earth)’

July 2, 2009

Haggard homesteading

Although I haven’t spoken much about it in a while, the homesteading continues on here at the Haggard Ranch.

As you can see from the video back in May we were about to plant a full garden complete with corn, strawberries, and all kinds of leafy greens from seed as well as [...]

May 25, 2009

Memorial Day 2009

By Jason
It is Memorial Day 2009. Memorial Day is always an interesting holiday for me. It didn’t mean much more to me than a day off of school/work, until Iraq and Christian’s death. In Iraq a friend, Bruce Smith, died in a helicopter crash. Years later, my good friend Christian Skoglund [...]

May 16, 2009

Now open for egg-laying business

Yes, it’s taken us longer than we promised, but we finally finished Coop de Haggard!
It all started with a spontaneous conversation about chickens at Community Group, which ignited a dream in my heart, which was followed by a deal struck with Shelley to take two of hers.
This got the artistic genius of CPT Jordan Francis [...]

April 8, 2009

Fun photo project

I’ve been working on some photo projects and thought I’d share one I just completed.

It was super easy to do and pretty inexpensive. And, I think it looks really cool.
I took the photos with my camera, not thinking of using them for anything in particular. When I downloaded them I thought I’d convert [...]

April 2, 2009

Washing machine deal

Tiffany asked me how I saved $200 on our new washing machine, so I thought I would share on the blog how I did it. This is basically along the lines of what Amie did in helping us find a new printer.
1. I researched online. Front loading machines are more a expensive purchase up [...]

March 23, 2009

Saving water

I would say we are pretty environmentally conscious and frugal when it comes to everyday consumption of things like water, electricity, gas, etc.
Truth be told, I get a lot of personal satisfaction (thrill, really) with recycling, composting, reducing, reusing, and the like. I see it as a challenge. Good thing I live [...]