Interior Belly Bands

Autumn (above) and Silas (below) working on the installation of the belly bands...

Some Random Shots

Above: in the foreground, the gravel marks where the farm's packing shed is gonna be -- the place to wash and pack vegetable. In the background, the concrete pad was just poured for the farm's walk-in refrigerator.
Above and below: I just cannot get enough of this view. These shots are from the deck of the common building.

Above: the new shelves that our friend and neighbor Matty built for the farm; below, those shelves all stacked with produce boxes...

First Bedding of the year in the Flower Field

Above: the bedding implement. The horizontal bar with the vertical bars spaced at equal intervals is a way of making lines on the bed so you know where to plant, with the proper spacing. Matt had just welded that piece onto the bedder right before I took this picture.
Next three pix: the bedder in action....

Below: the finished product. Last night I went out and sculpted the beds a bit, cut some paths to break up the linear-ness of the beds and set out some pots of plants. On Wednesday I have a little work party happening here to do the first transplanting!

First Discing of the year in the Flower Field

Right after mowing, Matt came back with the big tractor and the disc implement to break up the soil.


Above: Action shot! You can almost see the soil being broken up...Below: After discing.

First Mowing of the year in the Flower Field

....Matt came in with the mower to mow a small section at the top of the flower field. I'll be transplanting a bunch of last year's perennials that are still in the field, as well as seedlings that have come up farther down in the field, on top of starts from Green Gulch, bulbs from Ryan and a few seeds I bought in January.

Interior Belly Bands

Above: Grayson sanding beams for the belly bands. Below: belly band painted with wood finish.

Above: Autumn and John installing the belly band. Below: belly band. It's not totally completed, as the ends had to be cut to dovetail with the beams coming down from the ceiling, but you get the picture.

Greenhouse Work

Above: Ryan sowing tomato seeds, next to many flats of my flowers....
Above: taken while the greenhouse sprinklers were on, more flats of flowers -- Globe thistle, ornamental grasses, snow-on-the-mountain, snapdragons, eryngium, penstemon, baby's breath, dahlias, etc., etc....
Below: Rose cuttings I took from a neighbor's garden on the right there, catnip and a peruvian lily (in pot) from Green Gulch on the left. After taking this picture, I moved the catnip/lily plants outside; they'll get planted out in the field this Wednesday.

2nd coat of Exterior Plaster

...The plasterers began last week, with the 2nd coat of a mixture of sifted clay, send and chopped straw. After the whole building gets this coat, they'll start in on 2 coats of a lime plaster. We're still deciding on the final color......

Solarium, Cupola

....Above, plus two shots below: tongue-and-groove on solarium ceiling, installed by Silas. Hard to capture the whole effect because I don't have much room -- I was lying on the floor to take the first two shots, but I couldn't get the whole thing in view. It's pretty awesome-looking, but you'll just have to come visit to see.


Above and below: the Cupola with the T & G. When they remove the scaffolding I'll get some great shots....

More drywall shots

Above and below: sheet rock that's been taped. Not sure what the next step is, never having seen drywall go up before. These shots show the interior of the library/meeting room upstairs.

Above: The Drywall Crew. Ken, the man on the right, comes all the way from Cave Junction (about 100 miles) to do this job.

...Some of the shots I took have this weird effect from all the bits of sheet rock floating around.

Below the Redwood Deck

...Above: Matt Champol and John Mehta putting concrete in to support a structure (below) that will eventually hold lattice and screen off the back area of the building, which is a utility area holding trash, etc., from view. Now I just have to paint several lattices with redwood-colored wood finish to match the deck and the arbor.

Beginning Work on the Arbors

Above: Digging post holes for the main arbor in front of the french doors on the patio. Below: post holes for the arbor going in front of the main entrance to the building.

Above and below: the logs installed on the concrete foundations; the logs have been painted with a redwood-tinted wood stain.