In this week's episode, we took out half of our onions from last season. We will be replanting this area as soon as we have amended it with our new mix and then we will be plumbing our drip line irrigation into this space for the next round of growing. These onions were grown on raised beds in an educational system. It is not easy trying to teach your teacher how to do things and not all things work out the way they are planned. Getting the planting density up is essential if we want to optimize the small growing area we are using.
In this video, I have a look at the numbers from our 10m long bed of carrots. We pulled out 32 kilograms from 7.5 square meters. The data were recorded using FarmOS (https://farmos.org/) farm management software. Carrots were harvested and after a long process of washing, we built a dedicated table which will feature in the next harvest. All the numbers are in the video. Comment and share your yield per area.
I drive an old Isuzu and to engage the 4x4 I have to manually lock the free-wheeling hubs and I don't have a spanner... So I made one DIY! My design criteria were that it needed to be small enough to fit neatly behind the seat and made up of scraps from old projects. intended to make a quick tool and a video about the fabrication using an hour of my time. I rushed it so much I forgot to film in landscape mode. Luckily IGTV exists, and my friends watching this.
In this video, I set out to make a quick DIY wire trying tool as a gift for a friend of mine and I wanted to have a HOW TO video that would show him how to use it. I have cleaned up and organized my workshop (and dirtied it again) which has made it easier to do some quick little projects. I recently bought a small MIG welder and have been looking for any excuse to play with it and I have found it a lot of fun to make these simple tools. I have made a few for friends already and each time I do it a little bit differently.
Wood is a beautiful material to be a master of. From my experience, it takes time and practice to begin to understand how it works. Making something as simple as a picture frame is always a fun way to test out your patience and get some good practice hours in. I sourced the wood for this build from an old Macadamia tree which was pruned back. There were some decent size potions that could be salvaged. I used my chainsaw to roughly cut a rectangular log. I then used my table saw to rip planks. I gave them 5 months to dry and have now turned them into a picture from. The final corner of a frame is where the error of your cuts show its face. Do everything in your power to make sure you don't get a shock and be precise with your cuts. There are lots of jigs that can be made for the specific purpose of making frames but unless you plan on making them regularly I find it pretty rewarding going through some struggles.
Wood is a beautiful material to be a master of. From my experience, it takes time and practice to begin to understand how it works. Making something as simple as a picture frame is always a fun way to test out your patience and get some good practice hours in. I sourced the wood for this build from an old Macadamia tree which was pruned back. There were some decent size potions that could be salvaged. I used my chainsaw to roughly cut a rectangular log. I then used my table saw to rip planks. I gave them 5 months to dry and have now turned them into a picture from. The final corner of a frame is where the error of your cuts show its face. Do everything in your power to make sure you don't get a shock and be precise with your cuts. There are lots of jigs that can be made for the specific purpose of making frames but unless you plan on making them regularly I find it pretty rewarding going through some struggles.
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Biochar is a form of carbon produced through incomplete combustion of carbon-based feedstock. The idea is to produce carbon in various forms of purity through a process called pyrolysis. It can be as a soil amendment which can increase the surface area and water holding characteristics of the soil. The basic process of producing biochar is to induce combustion of carbon-based feedstock at temperatures ranging from between 400 °C to 900 °C under low oxygen environments. Under these conditions, the impurities found within the feedstock are released as wood gases whilst the carbon remains intact. The process has been called carbonization and results in a product of 70 - 90 % carbon if the correct procedures are followed. During the process, the wood gases are burnt to further provide the heat required to ‘purify’ the feedstock. The end result is a brittle black media which takes on the sound of clanging glass and tastes like nothing.
What is biochar? Figure 1: Biochar at 16 x magnification
Biochar is simply a form of carbon produced through incomplete combustion of carbon-based feedstock. The idea is to produce carbon in various forms of purity through a process called pyrolysis.
Last year I set out to build a Ram Pump on my farm. I had never seen one working (except my sister's high school science project model) and there were no people in the area who could help me. I trawled YouTube for help and found various iterations of pumps which allowed me to make mine. However, I often found the videos lacked some of the critical information about the pump.