Tennessee Homestead Design

07/26/2024

Want to get into homesteading without spending an arm & a leg?

Billy Bond & I wrote a book sharing our stories of building our homesteads from scraps. The information contained in this book is as relevant and useful as ever.

Comment below if you have any questions about the book!

07/25/2024

There are edible plants all around you! 🌿 Learn how to identify them by booking a foraging class with Centerville Farm.

07/15/2024

Are you prepared for turmoil & tumultuous times? Let's turn your property into your own grocery store 🫐🐔🥕

Tell us about your project and get a free quote on our Homestead Design & Installation services!

Benefits of Homestead Design:

✅ Avoid costly mistakes: Learn what will work well in Tennessee and on your land
✅ Build self-sufficiency: Take over production of your most consumed items
✅ Create passivity: Design a good production system that works in a busy lifestyle

Comment below to start a conversation with us today!

07/10/2024

Homesteading in Tennessee is a challenging but rewarding experience! We are blessed to have helped many people across the state on their homesteading journeys.

Tell us about your property & goals and get a free quote on our Homestead Design & Installation Services!

🔸 We can design & install 🔸
Gardens
Food forests
Pastures
Animal infrastructure
Watering Systems
And more

Comment below to start a conversation with us today!

07/09/2024

A barn is the heart of a working homestead, and it doesn’t have to be expensive!

For our barn, we paid for the rafters, 4x4 posts, and roofing, then all of the structural support and siding was from a $15 truck load of log sides from our local saw mill.

All in all, this 432 sf barn cost us less than $10 per square foot to build.

This is an example of our “Scrapsteading” philosophy which has allowed us to build our family’s 3.6 acre permaculture farm and nursery business with no mortgage on an average income.

If you want to learn more about scrapsteading, Matt wrote a book about it! Get it on Amazon today — link in the comments ☺️

07/08/2024

Tree planting recommendations from our sister nursery, Centerville Farm!

Our planting recommendations for most trees:

🟢 Place on the south side of a house or outbuilding
🟢 Plant with passive watering in mind
Plant on the edge of a garden that’s getting irrigated…
Below a gutter output…
By a ditch…
Or edge of a driveway, etc.

For example, we just planted this young fig below our house on the southeast side near our garden. It’s getting water runoff from our driveway and the garden.

It’s already producing 7 figs!

Let us help you build out your perennial garden 👍 Shop our remaining 2024 inventory before we pot them into bigger pots and increase prices:

2 O’Neal southern highbush blueberry
❌5 Currant (reserved)
❌5 Fig (out of stock)
3 Comfrey
3 Triple crown blackberry
4 Chester blackberry
3 English thornless raspberry
5 Canna Lilly
10 Fall gold raspberry
10 White mulberry
9 Hazelnut
10 Spicy oregano
❌12 Sunchoke (out of stock)
15 Ground cover raspberry
15 Black locust
18 Jacklyn raspberry
20 Everbearing mulberry
19 Thyme
19 Wild Elderberry
49 Pink lemonade blueberries

Message us or comment below with any questions and to reserve your trees!

Or stop by the farm nursery in Nunnelly on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays or by appointment.

📍11527 Aaron Lane, Nunnelly, TN 37137

06/27/2024

In progress! 🌱 This is a raised bed garden with a built-in drip irrigation system and 10 x 12 recycled window greenhouse we’ve been working on in Franklin, TN.

Each raised bed has a dedicated watering system, and the entire thing will be on a timer.

Need help designing your dream garden? Contact us to learn more!

📧 [email protected]
☎️ 971-226-7958
💻 tennessee homestead design .com

06/26/2024

Very excited to be a part of a native forest restoration project here in Middle Tennessee!

Some of the services we can help with in managing your land or forest include:

✅ Hand-clearing for sensitive sites where heavy machinery isn't ideal
✅ Forestry management plans for Greenbelt certification
✅ Native grass seeding
✅ Post-logging recovery
✅ Food forest planting

Set up a quick call with us today!

📧 [email protected]
☎️ 971-226-7958

04/23/2024

This exciting project is nearing completion! We recently completed this 78' geothermal in-ground greenhouse designed to grow crops all winter, powered by solar from Shawn Mills and spring irrigated with help from Ryan Steva. Can't wait to see it growing tons of food!

04/08/2024

We've been busy with opening season for our nursery, Centerville Farm, and with our homestead design clients, but over the next week or so we're going to update you on everything we've been up to since we've been away from here!

First up: a fun raised garden bed build in Columbia, TN! Our client had a few criteria for us, and we love a good challenge!

First, she had a crape myrtle cut down on her property and wanted us to reuse the branches somehow. Second, she was battling a pretty ferocious groundhog and pest problem and had dogs she wanted to keep out of the garden so we needed to consider that in our design.

So, we designed a fenced in garden area to keep critters out with two cattle panel trellises to maximize vertical growing space in her small yard. We used branches from the crape myrtle in the construction of two totally unique and beautiful gates and we followed the curvature of a stone pathway in her yard as we built the fence, balancing aesthetics and functionality.

We can't wait to see what gets grown in this space!