It’s 2026! Our homestead is a labor of love and it takes a bunch of grit, so we wanted to share our planned vision for 2026. We just shared our accomplishments and failures from 2025.Looking back is as important as looking and planning for the future. We have several things planned but the order of […]
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As 2025 comes to an end, we took time to sit down and review the last year here on the homestead. Every year, we like to review the year that’s passed so we can see how much we’ve changed during the year. At the beginning of 2025, we had 16 projects planned for the year.
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The Best Plans Start Before New Year’s. So why wait until January 1st to start planning your 2026 homestead goals? In today’s video, we’re diving into our off-grid planning strategy for the new year and why starting TODAY is the key to actually getting things done. Welcome to TNT Homesteading! I’m Terry, and we’re coming
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It’s time for Solar panel adjustment for our Spring and Summer sun angles. We’ve passed the Spring equinox, which means we have more daylight than dark. I thought it would be a great time to go ahead and change the solar panels for Spring and Summer. I had made some adjustments to the solar panels
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We require an improvement to the screen door, and soon. Recent high winds has opened the door more than once, and it becomes annoying. Problem The high winds has managed to bust the screening out of it’s track as well, which required me to fix it a couple of times.So I had taken the door
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It’s Spring, and that means garden planting. That also means time to get to work preparing the garden beds for the season. Seed starting A couple weeks ago, I started some seed starting. I managed to get out and get Brandywine, Cherokee Purple and Black cherry tomatoes all planted, along with some jalapenos and cilantro.
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It’s time to finally get the gutter installed for the upgraded water collection we have in mind! After completing a couple weeks of preparations for our water collection project, it’s finally the day to install the gutters. My parents and aunt and uncle came down and we quickly got to work! Getting started We ran
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With day’s till we install the gutters, we got the last of the water catchment preparations completed! With my uncle coming in just a few days to install the gutters, I realized just how much work was left to be done.We had gotten a lot already done, but there was still a lot to do.So,
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We are finally preparing for our water catchment enhancements we’ve been wanting to do for a long time! As we’ve been here for just over 2 years, it seems like everything just comes as it comes.We have all these plans of things we want to get done, but it’s a slow process. Things we want
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Planting garlic for next season as well as a other updates was on tap for the day. This last season’s garlic harvest was much, much better than the season before. But I’m hoping for still a better season next year.I’ve taken the time to amend the soil more adding some more compost to the bed.I
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