Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Group order at Fedco through Portland Permies?

Anyone interested in participating in a group order with the Portland Resilience Hub and Permaculture group? There is a discussion thread here with details:

I (Ethan) would be willing to do a pickup from Portland and bring it down to our area.  You can expect to eliminate shipping, and save up to 20% on your order.
Deadline for ordering is Jan 16.  Please contact me if you are interested.



Monday, December 29, 2014

attached Lean-to hoophouse

Over the Winter break from school, I got it in my mind to build a lean-to style greenhouse.  At first I was going to build it solely from wood, but after I started pricing it out, I realized we couldn't afford to do it that way.  After thinking for a bit, I got the idea to recycle stuff we had on hand. - In the mid 2000's, I'd built a hoop house with some thick plastic water pipe back,  and for the last few seasons it had sat at the edge of the property looking sad and shabby.    As of this writing the new structure is still in it's early stages but I am hopeful it'll work out well.  Eventually we want to replace the deck on the south side of the house with a sunspace, so this will be a good test run.  In researching the project on line, I found this article from UVM with lots of good info.