Breaking Ground, Building Our Small House Part 3

We broke ground in early spring of 2015, just months before we would quit our jobs and suddenly find ourselves operating on a very slim budget! It’s probably good we didn’t know financial insecurity lay right around the corner or we might not have started.

Michael did most of our site prep with borrowed or rented excavators, including installing a culvert pipe, roughing in the building site, and pulling out a mountain of roots and stumps.