Elements!

Just for my own satisfaction (sanity?), a reckoning of the elements in place or about to be in place here at Robin Hill Gardens:

1. Veg gardens, all grown from seed (reasonable harvests, gardener needs more experience)
2. Hoop house (12’x20′)
3. Solar PV array (5.1 Kw – supplies 100% of electricity)
4. Medicinal herb garden (minimal, needs more attention)
5. Cherry tree, nut and berry bushes, 2 kiwis (none of them producing as yet)
6. Apiary (3 hives) - coming up: 150 lbs (?) of honey
7. Avian dinosaurs (4 pullets) - coming up: eggs!
8. Rainwater catchment (5×60 gallons) - coming up: two 275 gallon toters
9. Compost (3 bins 4x4x4 and 2 Earth Machines and sundry leaf and wood chip piles)
10. Garlic house for curing garlic (Amie’s play set house: works great!)
11. Solar clothes dryer
12. Member of a CSA (carpooled too)
13. Reasonable number in the 90% Reduction/Riot for Austerity
14. Firewood – wood grown on property – for three winters
15. coming up: homemade honey extractor
16. coming up: homemade solar oven / beeswax melter
17. wishing for: solar hot water (involves thermal collector and new water tank, possibly electrical on demand)
18. wishing for: high efficiency replacement for one car
19. wishing for: trailer for other car (“work horse”)
20. wishing for: more fruit trees

There, I feel better.