We are very happy to see spring approaching. Its been a cold, snowy, polar-vortex winter here in the Northeast. The Earthship kept us warm though. Many people and municipalities experienced burst or frozen water pipes this winter....far above average. We, however, didn't have a problem in that department. We had a day of -25 wind chill but it was sunny so the greenhouse was over 80F. We burned about 2 full cords of wood in the wood-fired oven this winter for cooking and to bring the temp. inside above 70F. The exterior earth-bermed hoop house performed OK but still dropped into the upper teens inside on the really cold nights. Its currently on par with Zone 8 but I think i can tweak a couple things this summer to make it better next winter. I'm excited to grow vegetables and root crops in there this year
25 hens have started laying lots of eggs.
Herbs and sown seeds. We had tomatoes into Jan last year and plan to grow a lot of annuals alongside the various citrus and avocado. Between the greenhouse and exterior hoop house should give us some serious food come harvest.
This spring we plan to finish up the remaining plastering jobs inside.
Under the wood-fired oven proved to be a great place to start seeds.
Solara Jade....9 months in, 9 months out.
50 meat chickens! First of 3 rounds this year for our newest endeavor: Tapped Earth Farm! Follow us at http://www.facebook.com/tappedearth for the latest news and pictures.
