T-Bone’s Place, LLC
An Un-Modern Farmstead
Build it BOLD—from rabbit watering system hacks to greenhouse gold. Farmstead and homestead systems built on a budget, with ease of use and longevity in mind. Follow along as we show our wins, losses, and lessons learned along the road to sustainable living!
Welcome to T‑Bone’s Place ~
...our un-modern farmstead tucked into the quiet pines of East Texas. We’re building a life that’s steady, simple, and rooted in the work of our own hands. Around here, that looks like raising rabbits, building living soil, growing food in the greenhouse, creating seasonal starter buckets, exploring local East Texas gems, and learning as we go. No rush. No noise. Just practical homestead systems built on a budget, one useful project at a time.
T-Bone’s Place Mercantile
OPENING ONLINE
Sunday, November 15, 2026
Coming SOON at T-Bone’s Place 🫶
That’s right! We’ve been building the ACTUAL PHYSICAL T-Bone’s Mercantile for our Sublimation and designs here on the homestead and simultaneously, we have been building the T-Bone’s Mercantile online! It has been quite the undertaking!
We are not taking the easy way out on ANY front ~ T-Bone, as some of you might have already seen, has taken a 12’x7-ish’ galvanized crate that a CNC Machine came in and we are converting it ~ frame, walls and ALL into the T-Bone’s Tool Shed/Mercantile and we have some fun things planned for y’all with it!
While inside, Jax has been working to code the online Mercantile from scratch so that, on the DESKTOP version, Herb can interact some with you, and we can have something a little more magical and hopefully more captivating for your senses than your average shopping experience.
We are hoping to add personalization services onto the shopping experience, very soon… and we aren’t just talking about adding names to tumblers… we are talking about replacing Garfunkle’s “Friends” in the Speakeasy scene with YOU and YOUR friends! Or what about throwing all of your grandkids in the nest with the Four Amigos from Thistlewyn’s Adventures for Christmas?
We will announce this addition on our social media, so follow us on ANY of our channels @tbonesplaceofficial 🫶
Let us know if that is something YOU are excited about too! hello@tbonesplace.com
Thank y’all for being part of this little adventure. Have a wonderful day or night, and may all your dreams be full of fancy and just a little mischief. 💛😉
Your treasure awaits!
Start a Sustainable Homestead on a Budget
Starting a sustainable homestead on a budget does not have to mean buying land, building a barn, or doing everything at once.
At T-Bone’s Place, we start with practical systems that use what we already have. Rabbits help us build living soil. Scraps, bedding, hay, feed waste, and Bunny BBs become compost. Repurposed materials become racks, garden supports, greenhouse fixes, and working farmstead tools.
A budget homestead starts small. One bucket. One rabbit system. One compost pile. One useful repair. One food-growing project that teaches you something before you spend more money.
Our approach is simple: build slowly, reuse what you can, grow what feeds you, and let each system support the next one.
Small-Space Real Food Production
At T-Bone’s Place, small-space real food production looks like rabbits feeding the soil, greenhouse containers growing useful food, Bountiful Buckets™ helping folks start where they are, and simple systems that make a small property more productive over time.
We are not trying to make everything fancy or perfect. We are learning how to make real food, real soil, and real farmstead systems work in the space we have.
Our Approach
We didn’t set out to build a farmstead, we just started fixing what broke, growing what fed us, and inventing what didn’t exist yet. From rabbit watering rigs slapped together with spare parts, to greenhouse wins that earned one shovel at a time, we’re turning scraps into systems and chores into chapters.
We make living soil from bunny BBs and forgotten greenhouse corners, most often finding DIY comfort where grit meets grace ~ that’s T-Bone’s Place.
~ Jax Tress
Our process is simple and thoughtful.
Come on into the farm and see what we’re about. We share blogs, vlogs, and honest reviews of places we’ve been and things we’ve used ~ some we love, and some… not so much. We’re straight shooters around here ~ the only fluff flying is bunny fluff!
We’re honest about our own follies and flops too (and yes, we’ve had plenty 🥴😊). But we’ve learned from them, and we like sharing what we’ve picked up along the way ~ maybe it helps you dodge a bumpity‑boop or two. And hey, we’d love to hear your wins too 🫶
Questions, garden wins, rabbit notes, and small-farm lessons are welcome in The Root Cellar comments.
Meet the Crew
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The Labor Camp
⭐ T-Bone
T-Bone is the steady half of this place. He keeps the work grounded, the systems running, and the day‑to‑day moving in the right direction. He sees the straight lines, the structure, and the things that need doing, and he handles them with a calm that keeps the whole farmstead steady.
He’s hands‑on with the land, the animals, the repairs, the planning, and the quiet work that never shows up on camera but makes everything possible. T-Bone brings the kind of steady presence a place like this needs to breathe.
⭐ Jax
Jax is the spark that brings the other half of the work to life. She sees the layers, the possibilities, and the things that want to become something more. She handles the writing, the design, the planning, the breeding records, the systems, and the storytelling that ties the whole farmstead together.
She’s the one who notices the small shifts, the patterns, the timing, and the rhythm of the place. Jax brings the vision that turns the everyday work into something whole and intentional.
⭐ Together
They see the same vision from two different angles, and when they put their eyes together, the whole picture comes into focus. Dimensional. Whole. Alive. T‑Bone’s Place stands because both halves are the same heart beating towards the same goals, hand in hand.
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The Stars of the Farmstead
The ‘Bits
The Bits are the workhorses of our farmstead. We have been working with a cross of Tamuk and Californian genetics, refining our line for the last three years with intention. They show up in our videos because they are part of our everyday lives.
Patches is our headliner. She is a Tamuk Doe with the kind of temperament and production capability we were looking to add to our program. She brings heat tolerance and disease resilience to the line. She gave us her first litter of ten big, strong kits this spring that grew out exactly as predicted, setting the tone for what we expect from this line moving forward.
Gloria was one of Patches’ daughters from that spring litter. Her conformation was so impressive we added her to the breeding program. She has a shy temperament, but she carries the traits we want to keep moving forward. Gloria is half Tamuk and half Californian, and she is the spark where the two worlds meet.
Arnold rounds out our Bunny Barn. He is our young full blood Californian buck, still growing into himself. He brings the solidity and commercial structure we want to blend into the line. He is the anchor that ties the program together.
Together, these three lines create the backbone of our rabbit program. Patches brings the heat tolerance and disease resilience of the Tamuk line; Arnold brings the commercial structure and dependable growth of the Californian line. Gloria is the meeting point of the two, carrying the balance we want to keep moving forward. The three of them form a line built for real world performance, steady production, and long-term strength on a working farmstead.