Potato Prep

In the last post I showed the beds about 30% done. I have spent another 5 hours in them since then and the main, flatter bed is ready to plant, and the mound is about 75%. So after spending an evening putting the finishing touches on the beds with the kids {Mia was [...]

Sub Acre Ag: Bed Prep

I have spoken much about the fabulous compost mounds at one of the farms I will be at so I figured it was time to post some pics. At left is a shot of the mound I will be working. It was about 7′ tall about a month ago, and I [...]

Grillo!!

Funny thing happened on the way home from my 6th, of 7, deliveries to my Big Rain Barrel Account.

Yep! The Grillo is here!
I was concerned that it was still in the box -Joel at Earth Tools had said it would be “ready to go”… No worries though:

From box… to this in about 20 [...]

Good Energy, Please!

Just putting a call out for some good energy, I will be talking to a group of up to 1000+ at Operation Adaptation tonight on “Eating Like You Give a Damn“, kinda a Think Global, Eat Local manifesto in 30 minutes or less.
I have never come close to talking to this many people at once… [...]

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle -Be The Change

We are big on the 3 R’s of course. But every now and then we have a particularly poignant example. Like after the first month of our Big Push to reduce and we went to only taking trash out every other week -and even then only due to odor, and never due to [...]

A Prayer in Spring

A Prayer in Spring
Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day;
And give us not to think so far away
As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
All simply in the springing of the year.
Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,
Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;
And make us happy in the happy bees,
The swarm [...]

April Insanity: Wk 1

Posts will be even less frequent this month as I am pushing my self beyond what most would consider sane. Here are some Highlights for my April Insanity

Build and Deliver 50 rain barrels by 4/21. Considering I only did about 120 barrels in ALL of 2007 this is extreme. 21 barrels (3 [...]

Providence… Again.

The bid came back and the decision is made.  The order came in at “only” 45 barrels.  This is hands down a princely sum, I remember how ecstatic I was when I sold my first six less than 2 years ago, but it is also 40 barrels short of getting the Grillo.  While quashing the [...]