Leveling the Playing Field

I'm always up for a great TEDTalk, this is one of my favorites. It's worth watching, it sheds light on a view that I'm passionate about; simple living, empowering citizens to control their future by giving them the information to design and build their own homes. It's a great piece with some fantastic information available....plus the guys name is Alastair!

http://www.ted.com/talks/alastair_parvin_architecture_for_the_people_by_the_people.html



Busy week at the farm...we planted approximately 7000 pepper plants of our many different pepper varieties. This took 8 of us three full days and involved row preparation (300' long rows), laying out drip tape (irrigation), weed barrier, plastic mulch (that clear stuff you see), organic natural fertilizer, and someone following behind the transplanting to water in the plants to make them feel all comfy in their new environment. In all, it ended up being 10 full rows of pepper varieties!

These pepper plants were started from seed only 3 weeks ago and set up in small 4" pots in our propagation hoop house. The propagation tunnel is where the magic happens...here the plants get coddled, mostly by Anne, so they germinate in a timely manner so that we can transplant them into the field at just the right time. Farming is so scientific!

The crew working hard and systematically

One stink eye and three butts. Hens laying eggs in their boxes.

Looking south towards the high tunnels; some fine front porch living!