The Zeiger Family Homestead Blog

If you were to joke that cleanliness on the homestead is next to impossible, I admit that some days we’d have a hard time proving you wrong. Living semi-remotely allows a certain casualness that is seldom allowed in regular society. We can skip showers more days than we would if we lived in town; We work hard, and therefore sweat hard, but lower stress and higher activity levels keep us from growing too rank. Nevertheless, we are clean people as a rule. Maintaining proper hygiene, like every other aspect of our lives, takes more work and creativity than it did on the grid.

The small Aguaheater, with bucket of fuel on the left (Photo: Mark Zeiger).

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