Farm to Market to Farm
Kimi and Chip continue to grow... and take a peek at life on the other side of the Farmers' Market table.
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Kimi BrownKawa
- Apr 26, 2020
- 7 min
Farming in a Construction Zone: Trees!
Kimi and Chip plant their long-awaited trees!
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Kimi BrownKawa
- Apr 18, 2020
- 6 min
Farming in a Construction Zone Part 2: Seed Beds!
Kimi and Chip inch their way to home-grown vegetables, while continuing to finish the greenhouse.
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Kimi BrownKawa
- Apr 17, 2020
- 6 min
Farming in a Construction Zone Part 1: Microgreens!
It's finally time to put the farming into "Farmstead!"
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Kimi BrownKawa
- Feb 26, 2020
- 3 min
Ignorable Details: Ollas
Here is everything you wanted to know (or didn't!) about building ollas for our geothermal greenhouse.
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Kimi BrownKawa
- Feb 26, 2020
- 3 min
Greenhouse Catchup Summary
Here's a quick summary of the work Kimi & Chip did on their passive solar geothermal greenhouse in February!
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Kimi BrownKawa
- Jan 29, 2020
- 4 min
Taking Shape!
For the first time in their geothermal greenhouse building process, a task goes FASTER than Chip and Kimi expected.
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Kimi BrownKawa
- Jan 28, 2020
- 3 min
Frozen Beds
There's a reason folks aren't usually prepping garden beds in January...
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Kimi BrownKawa
- Jan 26, 2020
- 5 min
Power Struggle
Deciding on technology needed for homesteading tasks
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Kimi BrownKawa
- Jan 25, 2020
- 3 min
Fill 'er Up
The machine returns to save us hours of backbreaking labor!
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Kimi BrownKawa
- Jan 22, 2020
- 3 min
Wrap Up
Another baby step toward building our geothermal greenhouse, and a little more dreaming about what might eventually grow inside!
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Kimi BrownKawa
- Jan 21, 2020
- 3 min
Planting Plans
As the snow flurries outside, we hunker down and dream of subtropical fruits in our (pending) geothermal greenhouse.
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Kimi BrownKawa
- Jan 13, 2020
- 3 min
Concrete!
Our greenhouse build has been waiting for concrete: for me, a daunting hurdle! I have never done concrete work of any kind, and had a...
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Kimi BrownKawa
- Dec 26, 2019
- 4 min
Build That Wall!
Chip and Kimi work through the weather, holiday, and design decisions to build the retaining wall in their geothermal greenhouse.
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Kimi BrownKawa
- Dec 18, 2019
- 3 min
'Tis the Season
A weather-induced break from building lets us catch up on a few other aspects of life
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Kimi BrownKawa
- Dec 14, 2019
- 3 min
A Rock and a Hard Place
Artful excavation to complete geothermal tube placement for the BrownKawa Homestead greenhouse.
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Kimi BrownKawa
- Dec 13, 2019
- 3 min
One Day
Check out this one day's progress excavating geothermal trenches for the BrownKawa greenhouse!
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Kimi BrownKawa
- Dec 12, 2019
- 3 min
Roly Poly
Wrangling geothermal tubes for our solar greenhouse.
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Kimi BrownKawa
- Dec 8, 2019
- 5 min
Holy Moly!
Post holes for the BrownKawa greenhouse build.
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Kimi BrownKawa
- Dec 3, 2019
- 2 min
Digging In
Excavating to build an earth-bermed solar geothermal greenhouse.
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