Forest and Trails Work Day
Title: Forest and Trails Work DayLocation: Meet at pondStart Time: 09:00Date: 2009-04-04
Title: Forest and Trails Work DayLocation: Meet at pondStart Time: 09:00Date: 2009-04-04
A couple evenings ago, Dori called to tell me she’d just heard an American Woodcock (aka “Timberdoodle”) in the neighborhood — she thought maybe it was in the direction of the hayfield. Then tonight as I walked back from dinner in the Common House and was approaching our house, I heard the woodcock’s distinctive nasal [...]
March brought some good days for tapping our trees. Dori scouted out appropriate sugar maples, a crew bought the equipment, drilled and set up the buckets. Sap ran immediately, and soon there was 40 gallons in a brand new trash barrel. Sunday dawned sunny and warm; a good fire outside and the boiling sap was [...]
To prepare for talking with a reporter who was interested to know of any difference we may have seen in our heating and electricity costs after moving into a “green” home, I recently dug up bills from our last home and looked at our energy usage and costs there compared to here. What I found [...]
It has been wonderful to have the Common House up and running! Our first community meal there (prepared by the CH team) took place last night and was excellent — delicious, fun, relaxing. Our kids even ate some salad! Having the Common House has also provided a new place to take our kids during the [...]