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The takeaway?
We don’t have to wait for institutions to save us. Solidarity is a verb. Solutions live in our hands — just like the Amish remind us: Many hands make light work.

❤️‍🔥 Share this if you believe in the power of people working together.

#MutualAid #Solidarity #AmishWisdom #CommunityCare #BarnRaising #CollectiveAction #Frolic

The household kiddo got given some new shapes of magnetic building tiles. Naturally, the adults snatched them up immediately to do barn design mockups.

We had two sort of small/medium horses when we first moved here, so we built a barn that’s really more of a large run-in shed to start with. We built it in a hurry and we built it cheaply, but it has kept the rain, wind, and sleet off the ponies for about 6 years now.

The thing is, last fall we adopted two new horses, and one of them is a Very Large draft horse. Now they could technically all fit in the barn, if they packed themselves in there like sardines. Some horses will totally do that. These four prefer a bit of personal space, so they use the barn as a time-share.

That’s been okay so far. Nobody has been cold. The one who needs a blanket is happy to wear a blanket. The rest of them are hairy enough to cope with the weather. But.

It would sure be nice to have a bigger shelter for them.

We’re thinking we’re just going to add another stretched hexagon to the current stretched hexagon. And actually put real roofing on, not just a tarp. Maybe we can get around to setting up rainwater catchment and filtering up there, too.

#MagneticTiles #BarnRaising #HopesAndDreams #HexaYurt #WaterCatchment #homesteading

An overhead view without roofing. The white hex on the left is the current shape of the barn. The green to the right and bottom center is what we'd like to add. That little storage corner would actually be fabulously useful for halters and poop forks and such.

The same mockup from a different angle. Here we've put in a stall divider between the hexes, but honestly I don't think we'll do that unless it's necessary. Two doors should be enough for them to negotiate who's going in and coming out without squabbles becoming dangerous, given that they're managing with one door now.

This shows the current idea for where the roof of the addition joins the old section. This seemed like the simplest way to do it. We can cut those triangles out of the same size plywood we're using for everything else. The low waste is pretty motivating.

Another angle on the center roof section. Please disregard all the little buttress pieces we added to make it stay upright. The tiles don't have very strong magnets and tend to collapse when we build anything 'big' with them. I swear we have an actual plan for framing the structure so it doesn't go floop. :)

https://voragine.net/link/barn-raising

There's a long road ahead of us
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RT @modernTman
Texas to Tennessee #BarnRaising Tour

There are many "conditions" affecting & working against the North American Rancher.

Those same conditions are affecting you in ways you don't see nor feel yet.

It is time for this community to educate & understand true👇
#FoodIntelligence
https://twitter.com/modernTman/status/1532336942003675139

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VLpa8-hsuV0
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Texas to Tennessee #BarnRaising Tour is kicking off.
Arkansas 06/01
Missouri 06/04
Tennessee 06/07 -06/??
TBD- 👇👇
S Carolina
N Carolina
Virginia
Georgia
Kentucky
Indiana
Ohio
Alabama
Florida
???👀
Pointing at Colorado July 22nd-24th
Who's coming along?
@beefinitiative
https://twitter.com/modernTman/status/1531624763398967304

@lj_writes totally agree about sharing labour (#Barnraising principles). Automation is only sustainable to the degree that the farm (or *maybe* its surrounding area) can produce the energy to power it. Most current farm automation is totally dependent on fossil fuels and is unlikely to be sustainable with biogas or electric conversions. #OpenSourceEcology is an #OpenHardware project creating DIY farm machinery:
https://www.opensourceecology.org/

#BarnRaising

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