April 2019 – AikiHomestead

Aeration to Mitigate Iron in the Water – An Experiment

April 16, 2020April 23, 2019 by Stephen Garstin

So we’ve never had to use the heat cable in our well as the daily pumping to the holding tank in the kitchen has always managed to keep the well water open. That’s a blessing that I really cannot stress enough. Unfortunately, the water that we pump is just lousy, lousy, lousy with iron. We … Read more

Self-Directed Homeschooling

April 16, 2020April 18, 2019 by Stephen Garstin

As part of our routine of homeschooling, on so-called “regular day”s, Kenny usually cracks open a lesson book at or above his contemporaries’ grade level. Yesterday he was exempted from any lessons as I had to do computer calls that took up the entire morning. He comes along with me for most of these, and … Read more