Here’s another addition to the water-powered mill series. This is the Mingus Mill, an 1886 cast iron water turbine mill located in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, near Cherokee, NC. If you are interested in other water powered mills, covered bridges, historical timber frame buildings, barns, structures, or the like, please susbcribe to my…
I just posted a three-part video I shot while visiting Mackinac State Historic Parks’ “Historic Mill Creek Discovery Park”, in Mackinaw City, MI, this past weekend. I can write a book about it, but a video (or three) is worth a thousand words, or more. Enjoy! Episode 1- Visual Overview of the Mill (inside and out) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcbeAFpt6bU&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] Episode…
I finally shot a video update of the container garden and posted it on YouTube. I’ve been adding new containers almost weekly and plan to continue through the growing season. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcD0kqO3nV8&feature=player_embedded
We have recently expanded our container garden to include some strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries. Last year I planted a couple of two-year-old blueberry plants, only to have them flounder through the summer and get nearly destroyed by winter-starved bunnies. These both appear to have made it through the winter alive. I’ve transplanted them into containers and…
During the last few days the weather here in NE Indiana has begun to turn more “springlike”. Sunny days with highs in the low forties and cold frosty nights. The buds on the trees appear to be plumping right before my eyes and the boxwoods out front are showing signs of their spring growth. As I sit here writing at…
It’s amazing how wonderful a sunny evening and 42-degrees F feels after a long, cold, snowy winter. As simple a task as cutting down some ornamental grasses was, it felt so incredibly relaxing and refreshing. With my ever-expanding awareness of Permaculture and landscape design, I now view our landscape in a totally new light. I’ve become more aware of the beautiful, living, breathing, evolving ecological canvas…