Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Hopeful Farm 2013 - All Produce To Be Donated to Local Food Banks

Last year we did a test/pilot organic veggie garden on a farm to see what worked best in this region (So. Oregon), and how we could produce the highest yields with the least amount of effort. The photos below attest to our success:


DURING:


A baby visitor snoops through the zuke-corn patch

All excess produce was donated to our two local food banks. We're talking at least a case each week from July through October. That's how prolific things were.

So it's with great gusto that we've been gifted use of farmland again this season to begin Farm v 2.0! Here's the humble beginnings so far:


The back section is going to be a corn field, and the six squares are going to be various veggies. The method utilized is called lasagna gardening, or sheet composting, combined with square-foot gardening. These two combined methods reduce weeding and labor while producing twice the yield of traditional row gardening. Not only that, almost all of our materials are FREE. We use manure from local stables nearby, the tires are free and so is the cardboard, which acts as a weed/grass suppressor while inviting earthworms to tunnel upward.

More to come...


Friday, January 18, 2013

Danish Blog Article About "When Car Living Is The Only Choice" Book Project

The book project was featured on a Danish design blog today. Check it out here: http://goo.gl/piMYg

Also check out the other small-space minded and compact design articles on the site. Beats McMansion-like ugliness and sprawl with ingenuity and aesthetics ever time!

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Car Living When There's No Other Choice: Tips & Strategies for Survival and Safety

The project is now live over at Kickstarter.com and will run through mid-February, 2013! 

Publication is slated for June 2013.

Thank you for your support!

http://goo.gl/dLl3I

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1153660243/car-living-when-theres-no-other-choice-tips-and-st


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Living out of the back of a stationwagon (75 cubic feet) is definitely a tiny space. See how well others do with slightly larger places here: http://www.livinginashoebox.com/2013/01/tammy-is-living-in-12-m2-128-ft2-with.html

I always wanted one of those Tumbleweed Homes! They look like mansions compared to the back of a car.