The one-hour-a-day gardening project continues and my partner and I worked 11:00 hours in the last two weeks, bringing the season’s total average to 0:37, but some harvests (peas) are coming up and more beds need to be prepped. These last two weeks have been busy with picking raspberries and weeding beds, but frankly it … More Last Weeks in One-Hour Gardening
The one-hour-a-day gardening project continues and my partner and I worked 15:45 hours in the last sixteen days, although the season’s total average is still only at 0:36, so I need to pick up the pace! These last two weeks have been busy with weeding, establishing more beds, and harvesting. These Last Weeks My hybrid … More Last Weeks in One-Hour Gardening
I’m running behind on my one-hour-a-day gardening, the project in which I try to quantify my time spent growing a majority of our food. I had the opportunity to visit Portland, OR. An amazing city in terms of bike lanes and sustainability within our current system. More on that soon. Otherwise, I was busy in … More Last Weeks in One-Hour Gardening
I’m continuing my one-hour-a-day gardening. The idea is to quantify my time spent growing a majority of our food. I was pulled away last week for a family issue in New Mexico. What a beautiful environment and the complete opposite of here: dry and hot. It made me think about how I would adapt my … More Last Weeks in One-Hour Gardening
A few weeks ago, I introduced my idea to quantify my gardening hours this year so people can understand how much or little time it takes to grow a majority of one’s own food. I’m calling it hour-a-day gardening, because that’s the goal: spending an average of an hour a day in the garden and … More Last Week in One-Hour Gardening
Part of the Walipini build is the design. This plan is not an instruction manual, just the measurements and general layout to be followed during construction. If you’re looking for a resource about all the ins and outs of earthbag building, avail yourself of Earthbag Building: The Tools, Tricks and Techniques (Hunter and Kiffmeyer, 2004), … More Walipini Earthbag Greenhouse — Design
We’ve been working hard on the earthbag walipini greenhouse. Although our weekend workshop got rained out, we’ve still managed to get the foundation trenches dug, the rubble trench poured in, and the first layer of bags laid. Here’s the details. Foundation In all, we’ve excavated approximately 48 tons of soil. This has taken about 40 … More Walipini Earthbag Greenhouse — Foundation and Bags
We’re building a walipini greenhouse with earth bags this fall (you can join us for free workshops). Walipini are in-ground greenhouses. They use the thermal mass of the earth to keep the temperatures regulated in the summer and winter. We’re using earth bags (woven plastic bags filled with clay, sand, and binder) for the walls. … More Walipini Earth Bag Greenhouse — Siting and Bags
We’re building an earthbag walipini greenhouse this fall and we’d like you to join us for the process. This type of greenhouse is buried in the ground to take advantage of the thermal mass of the earth to moderate temperatures in the summer and winter. You’ll get experience building with earthbags — sandbags with a … More Workshops: Earthbag Walipini Greenhouse Construction; 29 Oct., 4 & 12 Nov.; Free
The F-word. It happens. Even if we had the benefit of hands-on mentors, we’d still experience failure. We’ve had a number of failures this year and we’d like to share them with you. In addition to avoiding our missteps, you’ll benefit from hearing the solutions we’ve found. Greenhouse Tomatoes We have squirrels here and last … More Failure — 2016 Edition
