The Crab’s Homestead blog is a collaboration of all of our family’s how-to’s that we have learned over the last few years of homesteading and the becoming minimalists. It began with our passion to live more self sufficiently, being aware of what we eat, what we feed our children, the chemicals around us everyday, and how we can teach our children to be more self reliant. We have tried Aquaponics, Raising Rabbits, Incubating and raising Chickens & Tukeys, Building Fences, Building things in general, Canning, Processing Our Own Food, Homeschooling, and much more. Through set backs and many “re-do’s” we are inventing, discovering, learning, and researching our way through websites, books, and our own personal experience in the small homesteaders way of life.
The Crab Clan Thanksgiving 2014
We finally decided to buy a 1999 Flat Nose International School Bus and convert it into a Tiny House/ Skoolie! Now, we are looking for a new homesteading location to start a new chapter in our lives by living 100% debt free. Follow us through our new journey to minimalistic living, and eventually to a new and bigger homestead where the sky is the limit!!
Chitty Bang- Day 1: Central TX: April 2015
Chitty Bang Completed 19 Months Later
TX January 2017
1 Year 4 months Living Tiny: Arizona: March 2018
2 Years 3 Months Living Tiny
Morgan Crabtree lives in a self-converted 1999 International Genesis School Bus, Chitty Bang, with her husband, Ryon, of 15 years; two daughters, Rion and Laila; their English Mastiff, Mila; and their orange cat Micio. They have been living tiny since November 2016 and enjoying their many adventures while traveling together. She holds a bachelor’s degree of Science in Management, works online via her website and social media, is also a contributing writer to online blogs and magazines, and a Young Living Distributor. She is also the wife of a U.S. Army combat veteran (also her high school sweetheart!), mother and educator of two incredibly brave and intelligent young women, an avid barefoot and yoga enthusiast, a student of healthy living and financial intelligence, and a world collider. She enjoys sharing their story and encouraging others to think outside of the box and follow their dreams with any helpful advice she can give along the way.
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I want the caution area patrolled by crazy chicken lady how do I get it???
I found it online somewhere! Email me at thecrabshomestead@yahoo.com and I can email you the jpg I found.:)
I have a crazy chicken lady T SHIRT AVAILABLE in the shop portion of our site now!!
I love what you’re doing with your bus, your family, and your children’s schooling. I live in Germany, where I’ve work with the military for 5 years. In April I flew to England, bought a double-decker bus, drove it onto a ship bound for Rotterdam, then drove it across to Germany. My wife helped me remove all the seats and now I’m fixing little things here and there getting it ready for the stricter German vehicle inspection standards. Insurance was easy here – about $280/year as a motorhome, even though it’s still a double-decker bus. As soon as it has all the basic requirments (plumbing, kitchen, etc.) we’ll move into it full time and continue the conversion. I eventually plan to take it back to Central Texas and put it on some acreage. Driving in the right seat is fun. Driving a double-decker bus is a lot more fun. Working on this huge project together is priceless!
That is amazing! I think a lot of people are moving to a more minimalistic lifestyle. I loved my big house but not the debt we had to go into to get it, and we wanted more land. Typical American, always wanting more:) but I see the benefits of skoolie living for a bit until we figure out where we want to stay and until we can build a house debt free, even if it is done step by step as we get the money. It’ll be ours! Good luck with your conversion! Skoolie Converters on Facebook has been amazingly helpful! You should check it out if you haven’t already! Cheers:)