Early Autumn Harvest Photos

With two children in our lives, we are finding it difficult to find much time for the blog.  Please forgive the brief  posts, and enjoy the photographs.

Most of the photos are from our Zone 1 gardens to use Permaculture lingo.

This time of year, the peppers are finishing up and ready to be harvested.

Odin is helping to process a Luffa Gourd. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luffa

Shiso has been allowed to self seed and now is growing in most of our vegetable gardens.

Peppers, Aubergines, and Shiso out compete the weeds and taste great.

We have our composting toiled fully operational now and in daily use, creating amazing HOT COMPOST.

Steve and Barbara lent a helping hand this summer and we closed off another section of cleared jungle for a chicken run.  With 30 birds, the first run is a dust field now and needs to be replanted with a Nitrogen fixer, maybe alfalfa for the chickens to eat.

More Aubergines, yum-yum!

Well that is it for now.  More to come as time allows.

Building Compost Bins

Our current system of compost building is a quick and free option for getting caught up on a late season.

First we recycle pallets and tye them together to form bins with excellent aeration, 1 cubic meter of filling space and easily dismantled for turning.
There is no cutting of materials in order to build the compost bins, a big time saver.



Second we collect horse and cow manure, also in abundance and free to the willing collector.



By alternating layers of leaves with our manure, we generate a hot comost within three days.