by Daisy | Jun 19, 2012 | Fencepost, Work-Alongs
To catch everyone up, so far we’ve made decisions about our bins and compostable materials, assembled the bins and materials, and layered our materials in our bins. We’ve made sure every layer was well-moistened and tried our best to achieve a good...
by Daisy | Jun 18, 2012 | Fencepost, Reviews
Most of what I read is purely practical these days. Not much deep philosophy. It’s hard to fit in between all-day canning sessions, compost turning, and refereeing less-than-philosophical debates like “that’s my cheap plastic doohickey-no...
by Daisy | Jun 15, 2012 | Fencepost, Work-Alongs
–continued from here– We continued to wait. Idee continued to set. She’d already been broody a good couple of weeks before the hatching eggs arrived. Now that she was on “real” eggs, she seemed more determined than ever to see this...
by Ivory Soap | Jun 14, 2012 | Fencepost, Flops
The picture says it all. It was ALL BAD, y’all. I think my first mistake was the WHITE WHOLE WHEAT. I had the same problem with the homemade pizza crust (the yeasty version, not the bake mix-biscuity version that never fools anyone.) My husband is an old...
by Daisy | Jun 11, 2012 | Fencepost, Work-Alongs
All right. By now, we’ve decided on our bins and materials (Week 1), and hopefully gotten our bins and materials ready (Week 2). This week it’s time to put everything together. As this is a hot compost which will be turned weekly, it doesn’t really...