by instagram | May 27, 2022 | Photo Posts
Found a bag of these plugs at the bottom of the box with sprinklers.I had no idea they existed and was naively plugging the sprinkler hoses directly into the lateral pipe. That worked, but wasn’t very secure. These plugs are more difficult to plug in, but also...
by instagram | May 25, 2022 | Photo Posts
Installed two with twist hose couplings (reclaimed from the old system) at strategic points on the mainline.They’ll be useful for filling ponds and whatever other high volume future needs. Right now, they allow watering zone 3, not yet covered by the new...
by instagram | May 16, 2022 | Photo Posts
in the making.
by Inês Paler | May 8, 2022 | Homestead, Permaculture
Just last year, we kicked-off our reforestation project. Creating a food forest takes time. Not just to implement, in terms of hours of labour, but because Nature has its own rhythms. If you plant a fruit tree in the fall, you can’t harvest its fruits the...
by Petru Paler | May 6, 2022 | Homestead, Recipes
Baking sourdough bread necessarily involves obtaining and maintaining a starter culture. After experimenting with several ways of doing it, I settled on the lowest effort yet still effective one I found: the NMNF (“No Muss No Fuss”) starter, courtesy of...