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garden clean-up

Barbara M — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 14:38:35 +0000

Nothing like a good garden tour to get you to pick up! Thanks everyone for making the perennial patch shine! Upkeep anyone?

Signs of spring – canning practice and planting!

Barbara M — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 22:43:41 +0000

Two signs of spring:
Group strawberry canning. Well, we were using frozen strawberries while learning a tremendous amount about canning and freezing and dehydrating. We want to be ready! Many thanks to Lisa Garcia for an informative and fun workshop.

Planting time. With help from Peter O and Sarah, we planted almost 500 row feet of spinach in the hoop house.
How great to snow shoe out there with our supplies and bask in the warm(ish) temperatures.
We’ve also got 4000 onions and 1000 scallions germinating in the Common House basement. Shallots and leeks coming soon!

fall harvest day

Noel — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 01:38:07 +0000

Saturday was a full day here, especially in the farm part of Nubanusit Neighborhood and Farm. We had a fall workday in the veggie fields, followed by a potluck lunch that took full advantage of our community-grown produce. Full fall colors in the trees and crisp blue skies helped set the tone.

The link between avant garde music ~ bicycling ~ cohousing

Richard — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:19:07 +0000

Taylor Ho Bynum’s 1000 mile “Acoustic Bike Tour” around New England took an impromptu turn into Nubanusit Cohousing the evening of September 15. Seizing the moment during an NHPR broadcast, Richard phoned in and invited the noted avant garde jazz trumpeter and composer to spend the night in the Common House after his Peterborough concert. Taylor showed up at about 9 PM with his bike, saddle bag & pocket trumpet. Early the next morning, before heading off to his next stop in Maine (over 100 miles planned by bike), Taylor fueled up at a breakfast composed of Nubi eggs, Nubi hashbrowns, & some home baked bread. Richard’s inspired outreach made the neighborhood at least a footnote in the diminutive avant garde music scene. -Jim

http://taylorhobynum.com

: Taylor playing his pocket trumpet.

2nd (annual?) Nubi campout & cookout

Noel — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:44:45 +0000

We did it last year. It was a lot of fun. So why not do it again?

Last night we had another wonderful cookout (complete with hot dog roasting, schmoozing around the fire, and eating s’mores), followed by a “campout” that consisted of pitching tents in our common and sleeping (sort of) under the stars. An easy and fun way to get in one last camping “trip” before our kids go back to school.

In addition to the excellent photos Clive just posted here, there are some more photos from the cookout/campout on our Flickr pages.

The Youngest Head Chef

Richard — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:28:36 +0000

: Head Chef – Taco Night

When no adult was available to be the head chef for Thursday night dinner, one 11-yr old resident volunteered. She set the menu, shopped, organized the crew, grated a lot of cheese and it was a success! Here is a shot of her just before the food was devoured.

Building the Hoop House!

Melissa Maurer — Sun, 02 May 2010 17:09:04 +0000

fall community workday a success

Mary — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:45:23 +0000

We had a productive community workday this morning with surprisingly cooperative weather.

Lots was done. Flower beds around transformers, Governor’s House, and Common House are clean of weeds! Daffodils are planted all along stone wall coming into the neighborhood, at Common House entrance, and in lots of surprise locations. Granite has all been moved and stacked and area cleaned up. Firewood near barn has been moved. Mushroom area is prepped. Trees near field edges were cut down. June-planted trees have no more weeds at their feet.

After a productive morning, we all were honored by a great lunch (chicken soup, salad with mozzarella, bread) in the Common House.

And the sun was out too! Earlier in the week, invasive bittersweet was torn down, and sunflowers and other annuals were pulled.

Thank you to the Orbetons for the lovely bridge contributed a few weeks earlier by the pond, and thanks to Darkstone and Dori for the recently installed stone and wood bench also near the pond!

Still to be done by others who weren’t able to be here today: work on sunken garden, trim maple tree in front of Common House, firewood brought up from horse pasture.

Let it snow!………Not!

camping out (sort of)

Noel — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:05:36 +0000

A contingent of Nubi kids wanted to go camping together before the new school year brought summer to an end, so some ideas were floated. Most involved traveling some distance, or perhaps venturing across Nubi’s hayfield and pitching tents near the river.

The reality ended up being much simpler and ultimately a lot of fun: This past Wednesday, the kids and a few brave adults “camped” right on our common green.

This arrangement made it much more of a community event than a remote outing would’ve been. It allowed our 6-year-old to enjoy an “outdoor” adventure while we comfortably slept in our own beds nearby. And it led to a spontaneous summer cookout on the Common House patio — complete with s’mores and ghost stories — that many neighbors (young and old) participated in and enjoyed.

As Dori put it, this experience had a great ratio of “low-work input” to “high-fun output.”

dogs, kids, horse, bicycles — 4th of July parade!

Carol Hamilton — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:26:00 +0000

The town of Peterborough has fireworks but no parade for the 4th of July, so we made our own — complete with animals, costumes, flags, balloons, banners, and a bountiful community barbecue afterward. Here are a few photos from the festivities….