Jonathan Longnecker / July 27, 2023
After 3 years of building, preparing, learning, and experimenting on our off-grid homestead, it's finally time to begin work on our home.
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Jonathan Longnecker / February 14, 2023
We’ve spent the last few months building a composting toilet outhouse out of earth and recycled materials - and we’d love to share it with you! P.S. The composting part of this building FAILED. See below for how we transformed the building 2 years later.
Jonathan Longnecker / January 29, 2023
What’s a gray water septic? Why would you use it? How does it work? And is it even legal? All great questions. Let’s dig in.
Jonathan Longnecker / December 17, 2022
Looking for the simplest way to create a small, self-contained, 12V solar system that can be monitored remotely? You’ve come to the right place!
Jonathan Longnecker / June 07, 2022
Welcome, friends! We've spent the last several weeks re-building our ShelterLogic Garage-in-a-Box tents to withstand the high UV and 100+mph wind events of the high desert here on our off-grid desert homestead. We did this by building barn door facings, hyperadobe earthbag walls, adding metal roofing panels, and giving them their own mini solar powered systems for good measure.
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We’re Jonathan & Ashley Longnecker. We love weird ideas, great food, travel, drawing, music, homeschool, tattoos, dreads, woodworking, design and our 4 amazing kids.
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