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23.01.2022 Tired of sifting manually, I finally invented this automatic, solar powered, cement mixer sifting machine. It takes a 60 second per shovel job and turns it into 4 seconds!

23.01.2022 Passive solar heating. What it means is that on these very chilly winter mornings we can enjoy the first rays of the sun exactly where it's needed - on our walls and on our cold toes! Our cob buildings eves are 1.4m wide to allow sun to soak into the large thermal mass that cob can carry all winter days long, while in summer the walls are entirely in shade - meaning that they don't get hot and the coolness of the earth is our air conditioning. Carefully managing the air flow ...(closing windows before the cool breeze starts in the afternoons) means that internal temperatures are regulated easily too. Sketchup is a great free tool which we used to design our building, and it has a super easy inbuilt tool to show sun angles and the corresponding shade at any time of day over the whole year. Gotta love the winter sun :)

12.01.2022 Trying a different way to make the scrambled eggs this morning. Took 4 besser/cinder blocks and cut the end out of one to allow the rocket stove action to work. Made great eggs, boiled water in 10 mins, and only used a handful of small sticks to get it done! While not as instant as using the little gas bottle (shown in the background), it uses small sticks only to make a great heat. Next on the side project list is a besser block oven that can sit on top - stay tuned :)

08.01.2022 Good rain today! We hope that many of you got this lovely rain that has been falling for the last 24 hours. We've got full dams and swales again - with the happy knowledge that we're charging the landscape as much as we can when it does rain. The beginnings of our food forest will be enjoying this water soaking in over the next couple of days, same goes for our kitchen garden beds which have all been built on contour to enjoy some swale soaking action too.

06.01.2022 I love the swale universe. I imagine whole little worlds of bugs and critters living for whole generations in this dense cover. Thrive little critters! May our understoreys be your canopy. Live long and prosper.