Homesteading Month at the Kerr-Cole Sustainable Living Center: Solar Power From the Arizona Sunshine

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Kerr-Cole Sustainable Living Center staff member, Berta Nelson, sent us a review of the solar charged Homesteading Education Monthevent held in Taylor, Ariz.

Here at the Kerr-Cole Sustainable Living Center in Taylor, Ariz., we celebrated International Homesteading Month by showing off our many ways of working with the sun.

On the first day of autumn, Saturday, Sept. 22, we offered tours of our facility.  Participants learned of the benefits of an earth-bermed home featuring thermal mass to keep it cool in summer and warm in winter.  Our visitors saw DIY solar batch hot water heaters, marveled at our passive solar water distiller and enjoyed the fresh taste of our garden produce drying our downdraft solar crop dehydrator.

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