Friday, November 1st FARM UPDATE

TimberFrame Sheds and Gazebos in Tara, Ontario, produced an outstanding 8ft by 8ft garden shed for TS, showcasing excellent craftsmanship at a competitive price. Future plans include commissioning them for a workshop. The delivery process was impressive, utilizing a motorized pallet jack, and ongoing construction updates indicate progress on additional home projects {{{AI generated; human vetted}}}.

Thursday, October 31 2024

A bunkie kit for our property. Stay tuned...

Friday, October 25, 2024.

By the end of today, I hope we have the following items & updates on site: 4 rain-barrels. Do we also need the purchased store-bought bases, or are DIY wood brackets adequate? the rough outline for an ant-control scheme. Hey, did you know they easily tunnel through styrofoam? FFS. Leaf screens. Clean out dem gutters. … Continue reading Friday, October 25, 2024.

Friday October 18, 2024 farm report {{updated later that day}}

Seeking fuel vendors! PM us.

Core beliefs and Sunday farming update.

What principles define how you live? Am I making order from chaos? DEEP ECOLOGY. Am I content and self-aware? HEADSPACE. LIVING. Am I living with dignity? QUALITY OF MIND & LIFE. October 13, 2024 Images From Our Forest Garden. PN & TS assembled a sieve to process marginal topsoil. It’s time to plant those root-bound … Continue reading Core beliefs and Sunday farming update.

Happy homeowners love river gravel & talented excavator operators. October 10, 2024.

Hardscaping completed around our perimeter. Pictures as proof!

Snapshot of our construction site, as of October 09, 2024.

Groceries can be loaded in stages. Cats stay indoors. All waist-high windows have integrated maple seats. Alternating layers manure, marginal forest soil. Burlap & straw-bales to stabilize hugelkultur. Our truth window! Click on image for clarification & captions.

I would have an epic, no-holds-barred, neuronic, eye-watering melt down.

What would you do if you lost all your possessions? And then call my insurance agent. My loved ones are safe, yes? I’d then go on a vendetta on the humans that did this to me. No physical violence. I’d prosecute & persecute him/her/them to the fullest extent of the law. Estonians hold a grudge. … Continue reading I would have an epic, no-holds-barred, neuronic, eye-watering melt down.

Brands and Hügelkultur for October 1st.

What brands do you associate with? Ohhhhhhh marketers! And yer dear algorithms. Take note (with a full URL to add to the meta-data): Toyota Automobiles. “Any time is TACO time”. https://www.toyota.ca/toyota/en/vehicles/tacoma/overview Kubota tractors. “Oh my little one. Oh my little orange one! My Kubota!!!” https://kubota.ca/products/Tractors Helle Knives. “Norveeeeeeeegan, ya?” https://helle.com/collections/all Buck Knives. “USA! USA! USA! … Continue reading Brands and Hügelkultur for October 1st.

Hügelkultur is easier than troubleshooting defective cordless reciprocating saws.

On September 29, 2024, TS and PN worked on raised garden beds. PN purchased a DeWalt reciprocating saw but faced issues with incorrect assembly, preventing it from functioning properly. They plan to get it replaced to continue their project {{{Wordpress AI generated, human edited}}}.

Contentedness > happiness. Hügelkultur, lifting rocks, reducing waste stream, keep shopping local, and watching electrochemistry at work.

In what ways does hard work make you feel fulfilled? Need details? Link. Physio helped my shoulder. Now, for cardio! This bypass will allow rental GEN to be installed if SHTF. PN can wait until DE’s tutorial. Roof array. Ground array. Non-tracking! I’m betting on it giving users real-time BATT monitoring. I’m damn sure Rydell … Continue reading Contentedness > happiness. Hügelkultur, lifting rocks, reducing waste stream, keep shopping local, and watching electrochemistry at work.

Events until December 2024.

Saturday and Sunday, October 5-6th. Meaford Apple Harvest Craft Show. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, October 19th. Fall Fair at Peninsula Out Of Doors. Lion's Head, north of Ferndale, ON. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, November 9th. Wiarton Christmas Market. Wiarton, ON. Friday to Sunday(?), November 15-17th. Lions Head Rotary Christmas Market. Lion's … Continue reading Events until December 2024.

September 25, 2026: PV (Photovoltaic) System update.

That featured image was AI developed. "a picture of a black cat wiring up a solar panel" Result: odd. Yep, a keeper.

Great baking, promising tiling, diligent assembling, and frustrated waiting. Tuesday September 24, 2024.

Our heros sought out baked goods and drove up to our build-site to see what's the latest development.

Our first bigger-than-a-breadbasket hugelkultur installation. And more blocks for possible milling. September 22, 2024.

PN and TS collected [2 dry-rotten] trunks and are preparing a method involving layers of cardboard and punky media for [controlled decomposition]. They discuss Hugelkultur, a strategy for moisture retention in dry soil, and explore potential uses for aged ash blocks, considering milling options. The post emphasizes regenerative agriculture as essential for sustainability. {{{AI generated; human [modifed]}}}

Yo-Yo Rubarth’s 17th Meddle, September 20/24.

I attempt to summarize my musical album preferences. I also provide a walking tour of our construction site, showcasing a tiling job and Hugelkulture preparation.

Wednesday evening update. September 18, 2024. Plus Sept. 19/24!

PN and TS are working on the farm, eating good food, and documenting the construction site's progress. Their family friends came to visit from the city and brought their 2 wolves with them. GP showed PN his modified breakdown hoist (and impressed the hell out of the guy).

Tuesday morning forest-farming highlights. Sept. 17, 2024. 5 p.m. update!

Your future B&B is being worked on. With dog biscuit markets limited to weekends, TS and PN can focus on the farm's back yard.

September 15, 2024

This was a silly bumper sticker from cracked.com TS shared this joke from Facebook; unintended consequences. We removed this rapidly composting wood-chip pile. For hugelkultur. This is an oak sapling. NOT jimson weed. I want to reduce tire scouring on my tractor trails. Delicious foul fowl. Click on the thumbnail to expand it and see … Continue reading September 15, 2024

I’m remembering 9/11 my own way. Wednesday’s (2024) farm update.

Today's date marks an event that shook North America awake. We observed this event at our forest-farm.