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laundry in the tiny house looks a little different these days! prepping for little girl to arrive.

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few updates including moving the house, adding a trash/recycling drawer oh...and now we are expecting 🎀🎀🎀

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15 reasons to build an herb spiral for your garden (By Jean Bardot, Natural News)

(By Jean Bardot, Natural News)

Whether you’re a city mouse or a country mouse — with a high-rise patio or 1000 acres — building an herb spiral near your kitchen allows you to partake in the sustainable permaculture revolution and have fresh organic culinary herbs at your fingertips. An herb spiral is a compact vertical garden built on specific principles allowing for individualized management of wind and water flow to create the ideal garden in a limited amount of space.

The spiral is a natural form that provides an efficient method for managing space, storing and sorting. Using the natural universal design of a spiral, the forces of gravity and water flow are utilized to their fullest allowing for proper drainage downhill. Herbs that thrive on drier soils live at the top, whereas those needing more moisture reside at the bottom where water collects. This form allows for planting of a widely diverse number of plants, and creates natural, sunny and shady areas — a perfect miniature microclimate landscape environment. The herb spiral as a permaculture form that allows you to create your own ecosystem and become self sufficient. The format can be adapted to large gardens if space is available.

Stone or block building materials allow for retention of heat and insulate plants in colder weather or at night, while acting as the backbone for the structure. Collect water at the bottom and have a small fish or frog pond or even a bog and grow edible water plants. An herb spiral can be built even on a concrete foundation and filled with the richest biodynamic, organic earth to support any plants included.

The spiral should always be built to move in the direction of water drainage in whatever hemisphere it’s located in — for example, in the Northern hemisphere, water runs off in a clockwise direction and the opposite is true for the Southern hemisphere. This allows for optimal positioning of the pond at the bottom and reduces evaporation. The spiral can be built as a round or oval shape to take advantage of the movement of summer sunlight.

15 REASONS TO BUILD AN HERB SPIRAL FOR YOUR PERMACULTURE GARDEN

1. Maximize growing space to grow more food. 2. Multiple microclimates available for optimal plant growth.

3. Healthier plants where growing needs are met and companion planting is easy to reduce insect problems and foster beneficial plant relationships for better growth. 4. Aesthetic garden focal point.

5. Maximizes space even in very small areas on top of concrete or in high-rise buildings. 6. Harvesting access is easy and all plants are effortlessly accessible. 7. No bending, everything is at waist height — hooray!

8. Save money by growing your own food. 9. Eat organic, using heirloom seeds and avoid pesticides and genetically engineered seeds. 10. Reduces maintenance, little weeding and easy to turn and mulch.

11. Manage water amounts and use natural forces to perpetuate the growing season. 12. Reduce building costs when you use local available materials. 13. Use drip irrigation or a small sprinkler for easy watering and irrigation.

14. Create a bio-diverse habitat for creatures who come to visit. 15. Build an herb spiral to grow medicinal herbs to avoid Big Pharm drugs.

Sources for this article: http://www.mitra.biz http://themicrogardener.com http://welcometovoluntarysimplicity.wordpress.com http://www.mysquarefootgarden.net/creating-an-herb-spiral/

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waiting for the weather to get warm enough to plant. practicing patience & thriving tiny 🏡💖

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a tiny home at the end of the rainbow!

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When it's rainy, I don't have to worry - there's plenty of space for lounging cats and yoga! I am particularly grateful for the huge windows.

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sometimes you gotta tiny house dance it out! full video on 📸insta: mollyjeankirkupheer 👯🏡

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❄⛄❄ First snow of 2017! ❄⛄❄ The front of the house needs a little love, a good scrub and some new plants but that will have to wait for some warmer weather. Luckily, the sunshine, dyson heater and a terra-cotta planter heater do the trick in keeping it nice and toasty inside.

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happy new year! happy tiny living! xx

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a tiny paint job, tiny tree and lights for the tiny house! 🏡🎄 we are so grateful for a year on this cute little farm, and are excited for many more adventures in living tiny. we are also celebrating the passing of the tiny house appendix to the IRC, and hoping more people will have access to sustainable, affordable housing in the very near future! here's to tiny steps of progress and lots of Love. 🍾

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It's fall in the tiny house!! October updates: - We got married! Pumpkins, donuts and all the Love! 💍🍩 - We have been living tiny for just over a year now and we still LOVE it!! Of course there are still lessons to be learned and we are frequently reminded how important communication is. We find making messes is very easy but luckily so is cleaning up! I have lost things...that's right I said it, LOST THINGS in less than 300 sq. feet that we built! 🙄 But we are home owners, we are not weighed down by too many "things", and we have time and sometimes even money to do the things we want to do. 🏡 - Duncan is happy with his tiny kingdom, sits out on the porch and gets to go on walks regularly. 😻 - We can't believe we still need a fan in the window! In October! It's awesome! 🎃🍂🍁 - The plants are still fruiting and we are making moves for a little greenhouse for the winter.🌱 We are blessed to have a place to call home, family and friends who support us and especially each other. We wouldn't change a thing. (c)heers to tiny living!

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sunsets and tiny living. hashtag life is good.

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pausing to remember a year ago this was an empty box. a beautiful box! but a box nonetheless. we were already tired and sometimes frustrated, there were setbacks and triumphs. But I don't think I ever imagined what a incredible blessing this adventure would be. I still sit in awe of Andrew, our friends and families support and our wonderful tiny life together. it is now our || h o m e || and I wouldn't change any of it for anything. to tiny living! m

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Duncan wanted to update you on the garden and interior of the tinyhouse! 😸 Top: Thanks to a little air conditioner in the window, I can stay comfortable on hotter days. The porch makes it so I can have a place to sit and watch for chipmunks! 🐿 Second: Our little plants 🌱 are starting to fruit and I’ve done a pretty good job of keeping the fox and/or groundhogs away! Middle Two: The loft is still my favorite spot, I can keep an eye on everything and it’s comfy! 😻 Bottom: We’ve also been busy making the inside even more comfortable and decorated, obviously I am a huge inspiration! #grayongrayongray Hope everyone is having a great summer! Peace, Love & tiny living! Duncan 🐾

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update on our tiny garden! 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 we used pallets to make portable planters. on the bottom rows are watermelon, eggplant and tomatoes, in the middle rows are peppers and beans and on the top, a few herbs and greens! we are grateful for the rain and now look forward to some more sunshine! ☀️ happy tiny living! xx

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tiny house, tiny porch means lots of yoga! 🌷

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the makings of a tiny front porch! yay spring! 🌷