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Cutting Board
4/13/2022:Here is the picture of the first completed cutting board, flawed but functional. I have started using it in the kitchen and am very happy with it. It turned out to be larger, even with cutting off the feet, than the plastic cutting boards I was using. My wife also decided to toss all of…
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BOOK REVIEW: Forest Walking by Peter Wohlleben & Jane Billinghurst
Originally posted on Tiger Riding for Beginners: Forest Walking: discovering the trees and woodlands of North America by Peter Wohlleben My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in Page Out: April 26, 2022 Wohlleben’s “The Hidden Life of Trees” was one of those rare books that profoundly changed the way I looked at the world, and…
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BOOK REVIEW: The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka
Originally posted on Tiger Riding for Beginners: The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in Page I kept running into references to this book in my readings about food and farming, and, eventually, I figured it must be a must-read. One topic that’s of interest to me (and should be…
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Earthworms are bad?
4/11/2022:I had noticed that I do not seem have any earthworms, as far as I know, at our Adirondacks property. I was thinking of introducing them to the garden this year. Today I read a permies.com forum discussion on earthworms being bad for the environment in many cases. Prior to today, I would have listed…
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Transplanting
4/8/2022:Today I transplanted all of the usable plants from the first system into organic potting mix. I put the plants on the top level of the new system so that they will get the benefit of the grow lights. The new system location is in the room with the boiler and the hot water heater.…
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Cutting Board
4/8/2022:Yesterday I was very happy with the progress of the cutting board. Today I started sanding and discovered that I put the feet on the wrong side. Now the top side had a knot with an opening that looks like food could get caught in it. So I cut off the sides of the board…
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Cutting Board
4/7/2022:Today I made progress on the cutting board. I figured out how to operate a hand-held router and cut the dadoes (I had heard the term before – now I have a better understanding of what they are) for the feet. The feet are pretty thin and I needed to run them through the planer…
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Sums It Up Nicely
Though I would also need a workshop (woodworking, metalworking, blacksmithing, electronics – making).
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Hydroponics Seed Starting System
4/6/2022:Started a second New Kratky Hydroponics Seed Starting System in the equipment room. It has two levels, with the bottom level now planted. I bought ten gallon containers that I thought I could move outside when the plants needed to be hardened, but the containers with water and nutrients are too heavy to really move…
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American Robin
3/28/2022:The robins have started to visit us in the Adirondacks! A dozen or so combing the field. Not sure what they are looking for (I have not yet seen a worm on the property), but they were finding something.
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