FEMA Gasifier Section

For reasons I am do not entirely understand, I am blessed with an obscene amount of energy tonight (despite leading a tour for 22 at our home yesterday and installing a 140 sq ft rain garden today), so I am whipping up a 5000 word section on Wood Chip Gasifiers. We brought our [...]

MREA Recap -Wow, Wow, WOW!

I Don’t have alot of time for a proper recap, -this weekend is INSANE: I have the Sierra Club of MAdison coming for a tour of our yard, Sunday we are installing a rain garden for a client, and Monday I take shipment of 80 Wine Barrels (by semi) from Kentucky.  But there are a [...]

MREA Day # -1

Today I head up to the MREA fair with a truck loaded full of our booth, an Earth Victory Garden (EVG), and the entire Gasifier.  I have swapped the Insight for the day with another of our group who will be coming up later today -he is on the County Board and has meetings on [...]

Compost Bin of Dreams

Living in a new HOA has some up sides -like my basement didn’t leak a drop in the 15″ of rain Wisconsin got in the past 2 weeks. But the same reason my basement is bone dry, also means growing things here is a labor of love. See our home was backfilled with [...]

Big Az Worm Bin

Even though I live in an HOA, I am able to keep a livestock herd of about 250,000 strong right in my backyard, and you’d never know it. See I dig vermicomposting. 3 years ago we tried the Rubbermaid Bin in the basement like the Worm Woman taught us. But I am [...]

More Fuelish Thoughts

We are still considering selling my beloved Insight for a 4 seat vehicle. Looked at many options, including a TDI Passat Wagon, a few 04-07 Priuses, and several 2008 Civic Hybrids. The hybrids are nice with lots of added utility over the Insight, but any one of the takes us into a [...]

Update and Storm Recap

To save time I will revisit the update I sent to our googlegroup CSA:
Unfortunately the update this week will mimic much of the news we have
all heard all too often lately in Southern Wisconsin -too much rain!
The plan was that by this time in June we would be harvesting dozens
and dozens of full heads of [...]

Garden Update and Food Frugality

Right, so posting has taken a back seat to, er, LIFE lately but I have a bit of time to catch up some.
Hybrids:
When I bought my Inisght 28 months ago I paid $12,600 for it -its a 2001 and it had about 53k on it. Now, 30k miles later, when we are considering turning [...]