By Andrew Haupt
This week was surprisingly cool and I focused on clearing, suiting up and busting out the old weedwhacker to bull through a lot of snowberry and poison oak. Still crossing my fingers that I’m immune to it. We ended up getting a lot done and the area around the tiny house building site is slowly starting to take shape. This process would go an order of magnitude faster if we had access to a decent size chipper, but at this point that’s wishful thinking.
I also got down to business building another raised bed bordering the meadow garden entrance using a similar technique, the modified wattle. I was able to clean up a lot of brush and even found a use for a bunch of the rotting fencing that was lying around, using it as the backstop for the bed. In the other one I just used cardboard, which held the soil in but bulged out against the chicken wire. I kind of want to redo that bed in the same way now...
On the fermentation front I started a prickly pear chardonnay with some foraged tunas and grapes Cory brought me, as well as a pluot wine since our pluots were starting to go bad. Stopped by Hopportunity Farm down the street as well, and stocked up on fresh hops for this year -- primarily Julian Gold and Cascade.
