Spring is on its way! Follow @aplacetocometofarmstead to see what we’ll be up to on our off-grid desert homestead! Our climate is USDA Zone 5 (ish). We experience temperatures as low as -10F and as high as 110F, with hard freezes as late as June and as early as October. Frequent high winds, lots of dust, and challenges associated with living on an ancient river bed and former over-farmed alfalfa growing land. Rainfall averages 9-12 inches annually, so we qualify as an “arid climate.” We are some

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