Pig Pens, Visitors, and Solar Design

The last few weeks have been very busy. We have had several visitors.

Eric and Janet, and their children were here for a couple of weeks. They learned about renewable energy, veggie diesels, and living off-grid, we learned about the different intentional communities they have stayed at. Originally from Texas, they travel the US in a camping trailer, which we showed them how to charge with solar, and convert to 120vac with a inverter. We took them to Upper Canada Village, a 1800's working village with lots of ideas for living simply.

Francoise was here from Anguilla, spec'ing out a PV system for her island Yoga center, and learning about electricity. She will be getting a 130 watt pv panel, a 12v, 80ah AGM battery, and a 300 watt sinewave inverter. From her we learned about cooking healthy with organic veggies from The Martin's roadside stand and greenhouses.

Dan was back again this weekend, building a fenced in area (20'x20') for our three pigs. He reused some old fence wire that was still in good shape, and cut fence posts from our young maples that our woods is full of. No power tools were used in it's construction.

Melvin is working on mounting brackets for the alternator that will be installed on the Veggie Lister Cogen system. I planted pinto and kidney beans, parsley, and hot peppers.

And finally, we are preparing for a whitewater rafting trip in Watertown next weekend, on the Black River.