Jay builds a house

Because we live in the woods, burning wood to heat the yurt makes sense. We knew almost nothing about installing a woodstove, so the first s...

For a while I ran an extension cord up under the edge of the canvas of the yurt. This works but doesn't let you seal that edge to keep w...

Our radical compost project relies on a steady supply of sawdust. The ideal sawdust is: - from softwood - from green (undried) wood - cu...

After putting up the yurt, we needed a way to get in the front door. For a while we used a milk crate: This was good enough, allowing us ...

The old compost pile got full in a big hurry. It took about a month! I did have 2 big trash cans full of food scraps ready to go in on day 1...

The plan was to put up walls on day 2. There was light rain in the morning, and I didn't want to trap any moisture in the wall layers. S...

Here are some pics from a day of yurt raising: Getting the top canvas cover on was the hardest part, as expected. It's big, heavy,...