The Walden Effect: Farming, simple living, permaculture, and invention.

Spring Break 2013

cutting a large tree into firewood with wagon in background


All this pig pasture clearing is yielding some serious firewood.

BJ brought his brother and cousin over today who are pushing a wagon full in the background.

They also helped carry all the stock panels to the new pasture area.



Anna Hess's books
Want more in-depth information? Browse through our books.

Or explore more posts by date or by subject.

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.



Want to be notified when new comments are posted on this page? Click on the RSS button after you add a comment to subscribe to the comment feed, or simply check the box beside "email replies to me" while writing your comment.


It might be worthwhile to rent a wood-splitter for a day or two if you have a ton of trees to deal with. Especially for getting that first split on each log! I'm experiencing a similar flood of wood with the "emerald ash-borer" decimating forests here in Ontario.
Comment by Chris Sat Mar 30 08:23:31 2013





profile counter myspace



Powered by Branchable Wiki Hosting.

Required disclosures:

As an Amazon Associate, I earn a few pennies every time you buy something using one of my affiliate links. Don't worry, though --- I only recommend products I thoroughly stand behind!

Also, this site has Google ads on it. Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to a website. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visit to various sites. You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting this site.