As homesteaders, we are always up to our ears in projects and to-do lists. The three biggest challenges on our farm are fencing, drainage/flooding, and shelter.

One of those projects is entering the final phases, and I could not be more thrilled. It took two years to build the barn. Years of paperwork, planning, lots of dirt, a false start and having to go back to the drawing board mere days before construction began, etc. The barn finally went up this spring, and has been an awesome addition to the farm, mostly to give humans and animals a place to dry their feet during the five month monsoon season we had this year. However, the barn was still only a shell with a couple of small rooms.