Dartmouth College has owned its own organic farm for just over ten years now. It truly is encouraging to know that an Ivy League institution cares enough about the wants of its students to invest money both in infrastructure and manpower to maintain the farm. The farm has been running maple sugar operations for quite [...]
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Maple Sugaring
Posted in Making/Building/Fixing Stuff, tagged organic farm, sugaring on April 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Harris Thanksgiving
Posted in Making/Building/Fixing Stuff, tagged Billings Cabin, DOC, Harris Cabin, Thanksgiving on November 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Harris Cabin is almost done. Well, it’s been almost done for quite a while now. But now it’s even higher level of almost being done. For Thanksgiving break this year, a hearty troupe of DOC people decided to stick around and help work on Harris cabin. We worked on windows, floors, stoves, and just about [...]
Spring Meet 2007
Posted in Chopping Stuff, Making/Building/Fixing Stuff on April 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
My camera is broken. So none of these pictures are mine. Most of them were taken by my family. Hopefully I’ll post some more pictures as more come in, but this is what it is for now. I might sometime actually write a wrap-up of the weekend, but for now, just the pictures.
Dave and I [...]
Fire and Snow
Posted in Chopping Stuff, Making/Building/Fixing Stuff, Winter on January 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Went out to Oak Hill with friends to have a fire and hot dogs and smores. Took a while to get the fire going – lots of wet wood. Too long – I was embarrased. alas. But we got ‘er done, and had a lovely time hanging out.
Also noticed some strange [...]
Of Mud and Men
Posted in Chopping Stuff, Making/Building/Fixing Stuff on May 21, 2006 | 5 Comments »
The privy buildling that started at spring break was supposed to have come to an end on Saturday. For the previous two months we had planned on getting our final timberframe privy on Smarts Mountain done and assembled on the 20th. But we didn’t count on two straight weeks of rain – the [...]
