Save the vines! Volunteers needed for a Bainbridge crop mob

I grabbed this little flyer the other day at the market, and repost with Betsey’s permission:

Volunteers needed June 11 & 12! Betsey Wittick needs your help to preserve 8 acres of Bainbridge Island wine grape vines!

Saturday 6/11 1:00pm-5:00pm Sunday 6/12 9:00am-1:00pm Sunday 6/12 1:00pm-5:00pm

To join the crop [...]

Things I learned

I learned about the Henry Milker (hard not to read as Henry Miller) which is designed for fast, easy, clean milking of goats primarily. (I really want some dairy goats. This requires changing up our work schedules, which may actually be feasible …) Plus it milks straight into a mason jar! I love mason [...]

Record-keeping

I’m not really one for resolutions, but I did get a nice Moleskine calendar notebook with room to write some basic notes on each day. I’m hoping to take notes each day about what went on — what was planted, what was harvested, how many eggs, etc. I forgot to do it the past [...]

Chicken bunker yay!

We made a lot of progress on the expanded chicken coop this weekend! Its name is now Chicken Bunker, on account of how cozy and built-into-the-hill it is. All that’s left to do is get the roof on and wire up the sides, which is only a few more hours of work. The old [...]