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.
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.
From Our Hands to Yours
🪴 How We Create Bountiful Buckets™
We start with the soil. Here at T-Bone’s Place, we make living soil, and not a morsel of dirt has been purchased in three years. We’re mighty proud of that. Our rabbits provide what we need to compost and build a rich, healthy foundation for every seed we plant. We are also beginning to generate our own earthworm castings to add even more life to the bins.
From that soil, we grow, harvest, forage, and gather what each season offers, always choosing quality over quantity and intention over speed.
Each Bountiful Bucket is curated by hand. Every bucket is filled with our living soil, enhanced with Bunny BBs for future soil fertilization and root-boosting goodness, and planted with starts that reflect the real work happening here at T-Bone’s Place.
This is the process. This is the rhythm. This is the blessing we pass on.
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 BB’s and forgotten greenhouse corners, most often finding DIY comfort where grit meets grace ~ that’s T-Bone’s Place.
~ Jacqui 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.
SIM™ | Sonic Identity Method
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You are invited. SIM was born from a quiet place on this land and from the desire to live with more intention and less noise. If you feel that same tug toward a steadier way of being, come join us.
The Method is one more step toward sustainability for the entrepreneurs and trailblazers who are shattering molds and breaking rules every day to build their own versions of success.
Meet the Crew
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The Labor Camp
⭐ Gene (T-Bone)
Gene 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. Gene brings the kind of steady presence a place like this needs to breathe.
⭐ Jacqui (Jax)
Jacqui 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. Jacqui 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.