The two new chicks – Oreo and Nocty – are hale and healthy and growing like the weeds, a little over two months old now. They were cooped up in a large crate on the porch at night and in the “table coop” for most of the day. I liked neither, the latter not predator …
Author Archives: kaat
We’ve Got Wheels!
So our Community Garden plots is 40′ x 30′. That’s a lot of beans to sow. As I was thinking of how best to keep our lines straight, the spacing and depth consistent, I conceived of… THIS The Dibble Wheel(s)! Tada! My friend R came to help me chop up a dowel and screw all …
Riot – April and May 2013 – Months 54-55
OVER FOUR YEARS OF RIOT! I’m a little late reporting but I did calculate the Riot a couple of days back for the months of April and May 2013 for the three of us and three house guests for 2 weeks, making it on average 4 people. My summary of our first three years is here. …
U-oh! Trouble.
Here’s another one for our wildlife list: the groundhog. He/she is small, and has a burrow right into our slope. I’ll ask to borrow a Have-A-Heart and remove it.
Two Conversations: Grief, Again
That day, several months ago when my friend R and I got the IBC totes, I was part of two conversations, one with the man who arranged the sale, the second with R afterward, on the way home. 1. Bleakness I’ll call him L. We chatted in his factory’s yard, surrounded by totes stacked like a …
An Exhausting Day, But all Bees Taken Care of
Today I went into five hives, three my own and two of a BEElieve beekeeper who broke his ankle. All but the latter two were in the full sun. Today we also had a heatwave at 93F. And in the morning, before my bee run, I spent an hour with Amie’s classroom planting poor wilting …
Continue reading “An Exhausting Day, But all Bees Taken Care of”
Community Garden Plots
 Before tilling After tilling Our first foray into tilling the two Community Garden plots gathered a dear friend and her neighbor, who brought his small rototiller. After two hours, we had 1/3 tilled. This morning it was my beekeeping pal and a young woman I met through garden consulting work, who brought “Mommy’s Machine” – a …
The Sun is Back and Hyper-Local Lovage Soup
After a couple of days of rain and chill (yesterday morning I even lit a fire in the wood stove) the sun has returned. I got a lot done what with all that pent-up green energy! I cleaned the chicken coop. All the veg beds (‘cept the hoop house ones) are now planted, the potatoes …
Continue reading “The Sun is Back and Hyper-Local Lovage Soup”
The Yeast Lives
Brewing root beer and mead (with wine yeast, I’m not leaving it up to chance this time). The yeast at least is having a feast. It’s feasting on honey. Mead recipe (following this one but without the spicing): boiled 2 gallons of filtered tap water steeped one big of Tazo organic chai in it …
I’m Sorry
I just read another great post by fellow blogger and Transition worker Charlotte Du Cann (in UK) in which she writes about our need to listen to our ancestors. She writes: Because you realise we have put the best of ourselves out with the trash, and what we have now is the life of a …