Guildbrook Farm is a modern homestead in the foothills of Appalachia. We take our audience along on a journey to become more self-reliant by growing our own organic produce, raising animals for dairy and eggs, preparing food for long-term storage, and building off the grid renewable energy systems. In 2017, we moved to raw land where we are building a debt-free energy efficient and disaster resistant ICF mountain home. Join us as we learn to live a simple, sustainable lifestyle.
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Our next project on the off grid homestead is laying a concrete block well house for our new deep well. I threw together a 6'x6' design using Sketchup. Since I already have a lot of concrete block on hand hopefully this project won't cost much. In part 1 we poured the footer. This is part 2 of the series where we mix the mortar, lay and level 5 courses of block.
