Want to experience a little taste of farm life (without the chores)? Stay a few nights in this off-grid cabin at Moon in the Pond Farm near Housatonic Meadows State Park in Massachusetts. The accommodation is charming, but simple, with a comfortable queen bed, a little table and chair, and a snuggly wood burning stove [...]
Homesteads
From Van Life To Tiny House on 14 Acres in Vermont
Colby and Aria used to be vanlifers, but are now proud owners of more than 14 acres of woodlands in Vermont, as well as their very own DIY tiny home that’s entirely off-grid (they even get water from their stream). Their 360 square foot home is heated by wood they cut themselves, and they have [...]
THOW in the Meadow: Tiny Living in Germany
When Tina and her partner went in different directions, it left her with a tough decision to make: Leave their barn home and sell her animals, or find someway to live on pasture with her herd of sheep and goats (and her cats and dogs)? Tiny living was the perfect solution! With the help of [...]
Family’s Debt-Free Cob Home Took 10 Years of Planning!
When Danny and Katherine first learned about cob building, they were hooked! But they couldn’t jump right in due to a number of circumstances. Eventually, they were able to build a “trial” cob tiny home on her parents’ property, where they lived for a few years while saving and planning for their forever home on [...]
The Dugout: Hobbit-Inspired Cottage with Library Bath!
On a smallholding (family farm) near the England/Wales border sits The Dugout: A little cottage, literally dug from the hillside, filled with quirky cut stone floors and charming woodwork (including pulley light switches). The handmade Chestnut Master bed sits in the round portion of the cottage. The home also has comfortable seating near a wood [...]
Big Sky Bus on 8 Acre Homestead!
Meet Clint and Erika and their dog Pete (short for Pizza). They jumped on the tiny bandwagon slowly, planning meticulously for their life on the road in a bus. But somewhere between the start of their journey and now, they ended up three hours from home on 8 acres of their own land south of [...]
She Built A Tiny Cottage (& Entire Eco Village) With Adobe
Meet Lindsay, a 63-year-old English woman who had a dream to start an eco village in Morocco — and did just that! Using a 2-brick mold, she and volunteers have created some 10,000 adobe bricks over the past 5 years to create a number of structures in the village including her home, the “boat house,” [...]