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.
Category: permaculture
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.
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.
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]}}}
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.
Plenty of thermal mass. Lower ecological footprint.
What does your ideal home look like? Eventually, that additional off the visible side (where that plywood sheet is located in the image) will be built. Then. Then we have our ideal house. Random Thoughts https://youtu.be/s5BB73gqlNw?si=dudHRozfNRWqRc10 Let’s get the frills out of the bill!
Monday… our day off. And we’re at the construction site!
PN and TS find working together less stressful at the construction site. PN enjoys labor while TS fits board ends for firewood. They both like bringing order from chaos. PN struggles using tools with his non-dominant hand. They encountered a coiled garder snake but managed to shoo it away. TS felt wind-chilled after a 8.3 km walk. {{{AI generated; human vetted}}}
