Annie and I have been talking about this post for a while. Basically a shout-out to the all stars in our kitchen—the things we use every day, our essentials, the things we couldn’t live without, the game-changers in our kitchen, tiny yurt kitchen or not. We use these literally every
Category: General
LED Lights for Our Off-Grid Yurt
For the first year in this little off-grid yurt of ours, our sole light source was six small, inflatable, solar-powered Luci lights from MPOWERD. Now we’ve upgraded to two strings of LED lights, powered by a solar-charged battery. Though the Lucis were great and we still use them as reading lights
Free PDF Yurt Guide
We’re so happy to have finally finished the first version of our PDF Yurt Guide. We wanted to make this guide as the sort of resource we wish we had when we were first investigating yurts. It can serve as an introduction to yurt living options and also as a
Backyard Sugaring: Collect Maple Sap with Five-Gallon Buckets
A small-scale maple sugaring operation like ours—basically, backyard maple sugaring—doesn’t use vacuum pressure to collect maple sap. Good old-fashioned gravity is our method of choice. There’s two methods to consider when deciding how you want to collect sap from your maple trees. First, there’s the picture postcard method: tap a
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Photos: Tapping Our Maple Trees
February in Vermont has gotten a bit slushy and a tad icy with the freeze-thaw cycles of the last couple of weeks. Lucky for us that means it’s time for tapping (some of) our maple trees. In total we’ll have 21 taps this season, up a couple from last year.
List of Yurt Companies and the Yurt Sizes They Build
There are enough yurt companies across the United States that it can be difficult figuring out how to choose which yurt to buy. The yurt-decision process will be slightly different for everyone, depending on your particular needs—what region and climate you live in, what size yurt you need, your budget,
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How to Find Yurt Insurance
So you spend thousands of dollars and countless hours building your yurt, and then move everything you own into it. You want to insure that yurt. It’s your home—your life! the things you love! But you start calling around to get quotes from home insurance companies and the response is…disheartening.
Yurt Living in Winter – The Practical Aspects
Small talk is easy when you run into us in the winter. When we see friends at the local Vermont coop (real crunchy), when we talk to family on the phone (less crunchy), the question is common: How’s the winter been? Are you staying warm in the yurt? Of course!
What to Consider When Designing a Yurt Interior (or Tiny Home)
After hours and hours of building the yurt platform, and slightly fewer hours setting up the yurt itself, we had a big, round, empty space to make our own. I think this fact is often understated and underrated when considering what yurt life might be like—when you move into a
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Real Good (The Best?) Environmental Podcasts
I’m always on the lookout for good new podcasts. (If you have recommendations, email them my way.) Recently, I was wanting more outdoor, nature, and environmental podcasts, but was having trouble finding them, or at least finding good ones. So I did a lot of digging and put together this