Category: Sustainability

My dream—and now our goal—is to be self-sustaining. The thing is, sustainability is a slippery slope. First you're just trying to eat healthy and spend less money, but that quickly escalates to plans for an earth-sheltered home powered by solar panels. Before you know it, you're off the grid, milking a cow twice a day and composting everything. And in my wife's view, we're all wearing linens woven by hand, singing kumbaya around a campfire, much to her chagrin. But right now we live in an apartment. So we're starting out slow, doing what we can until we buy our plot of land, researching and learning now so we can jump right into things when the time comes. We've started baking our own bread, brewing our own beverages, gardening on…