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February 27, 2004
by Anais in Garden, Homestead, Kitchen, Mushrooms, Posts by Anais, Rainwater Harvesting, Solar Oven, Water, Weather
Everywhere I look around….
It’s a lovely day today. The sun’s out, skies are blue, air’s fresh and clean. The rain seems to have hastened the decomposition of the wood chips in the driveway and garden pathways. So we’ve been calling local tree trimmers to see if they have a load of oak or conifer tree [...]
February 20, 2004
JM and I did some baking for the knitting group yesterday and made a chocolate cake (topped by chocolate cherry frosting) with fresh duck eggs. It was a hit! Everyone loved it!
I believe we’ve become spoiled baking with our duck eggs as it really makes the desserts turn out delectably moist and fluffy. You can [...]
December 28, 2003
by Anais in Community, Garden, Greywater Reclamation, Homestead, Mushrooms, Posts by Anais, Water, Weather
RAIN & MUDSLIDES
Just a quick update of what’s been going on the past few days….On the 25th we had over 2 inches of torrential rain with extremely strong gusts of wind. The wind was very scary at times, so much so that we thought there was a chance of a small tornado. (Hadn’t rained on [...]
March 28, 2003
If thou canst but thither, There grows the flower of Peace, The Rose that cannot wither, Thy fortress and thy ease. ~ Henry Vaughn ~
After a long absence of new photos, I finally had the time to upload some to ourPHOTO GALLERY. There are quite a lot ofNEW PICTURES, so please be patient while the [...]
March 12, 2003
We are trying to track down some plastic food grade barrels for rainwater collection. We found a guy on CalMAX (California Materials Exchange: Classified Re-use Ads. This site offers some really neat stuff — sometimes wish we had a truck to go and pick it all up!) who sells used barrels for about $6. The [...]
March 7, 2003
“Nature alone is antique and the oldest art a mushroom.” ~ Thomas Carlyle ~
Now that the weather is warming up, we are starting to harvest button mushrooms from the growing boxes that we placed in our cellar. It took awhile for them to start coming up as it was still a bit chilly,
Jumbo mushroom
We are [...]
February 7, 2003
We are trying to grow some mushrooms in our cellar This pictures shows the spores starting to materialize. In this experiment we purchased a mushroom kit and divided up the spores into several boxes (which are actually old drawers salvaged from the side of the road) to save some money. So far, so good up [...]
