freezer hacking and farm coolers
ok, so i did not find some old freezer for free on the corner, but we successfully completed the ubiquitous freezer hack. we want to be able to store a large quantity of veggies in a fridge that cools things quickly. why? in order to deliver great veggies you want to cool them down as […]
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 […]
TECHNOLOGY – webcam, weather station, computers, remote desktop… ugh
We want to be able to keep an eye on things while we are not here – check temp in greenhouse, see if it is getting dry, etc. in general we thought logging the weather conditions up here might give us a bit more insight into what is happening with our crops. i chose this […]
Makeshift Greenhouse
Lewis and I made a greenhouse of sorts this weekend in the yoga room. Yes, it is a little early for us to start planting (considering we have no toasty place to move these seeds to once they sprout and that, even if it weren’t still way cold in the unprotected outdoors, we don’t have […]
BIG and small
with such a list of endless tasks ahead it is hard to keep the balance of dreaming about the whole while remaining focused on each task at hand to move the whole forward. very easy to lose sight of why and lose touch with the best way to use each moment. amber took this foto […]
Starting to cook!
Or… lactoferment. It’s nice to have space in the kitchen (as opposed to Manhattan minifridge). I started out chopping the cabbage by hand, but it was so massive I got tired of it and threw it in the food processor. I tossed 3 tbs of sea salt to about 5 lbs (!!!) of cabbage and […]
