Passive Greenhouse
This holiday weekend i spent with family as well as reading, writing, and calculating a ton to submit a proposal for a conservation innovation grant. i did not go thru the proper channels but hoping for the best. here is the proverbial napkin.
planting crunch in the heat
a scorcher this weekend, but we still jammed out a 10 hour day on saturday! cory, our neighbor, did a truckload of compost in the rows and transplanted a couple of rows of beets. amber and i focused on row prep, transplanting, and direct seeding. our goal was to get everything for the main season […]
bangin!
we have been working really hard… a lot is happening. will work to fill in pix and posts, but the truth is we may have forgotten half of what we have done. a few highlights.: 3 people planted their first seeds expert seed blocking continues to keep us on schedule path cutting to the train […]
deer fence posts – and the one person post hole digger
HEAVY equipment… hardly, but who would have thought that operating a power tool would be so tiring. this thing was kinda nuts, but it was way better than banging a digging bar into the ground. i drove to home depot this morning – something i fear that i will have to do many more times […]
spring morning
the sun is getting very high in the sky. just a few weeks after the equinox and the sunrise has really shifted position. during the day. during the day the sun is not creeping into the windows of our living room green house nearly as far. you can see the sprouts really straining to reach […]
expanding and experimenting
so our friend and mentor, verena, had this great idea that we should be able to use a bunch of 1-2″ sticks to make fence posts for deer fencing. here are the first few in the ground. i spent an hour pulling various pieces of already fallen wood out of the woods. i then watched […]
