Recent content by pconwayfarms

peapickinchicks, Where are you in Ky? I find jars really cheap all the time. If you are close, I can scout some out for you.

As to the seedling question, I use gallon milk jugs for mini-cloches for my broccoli and early cabbages. I cut off only the bottom inch or so of the jug and remove the cap. This allows for ventilation and with the diffuse light of the semi-opague jug you avoid the excess heat of a clear...

I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only one who gets jazzed about compost. My chickens are the greatest when it comes to lazy man's compost. I throw everything into their house- grass clippings, bagged leaves from the curb, the hay the sheep try to waste, shredded paper from our library, wood...

I have a friend who has a wheel, but carries a drop spindle in her bag so that she can spin during "down time" like waiting in the Dr's office. She also had a spindle made from a pencil and a CD. Be creative and enjoy.

I would appreciate your advice or resources to help me understand what it would take to have installed a hydro turbine. All I can find are methods for calculating head/volume, etc. but I need to start more basic and then go more detailed than the info I have seen thus far. I have a property...