A Photo Journey from the Weekend of the Solstice
The well is nearing completion. Despite the ever decreasing depth of our hole, you can see water not far below the surface. If we’re lucky, we’ll end up with a year-round shallow well. If we’re not so lucky, it will be a seasonal one....
Factor E Live 2
The last two weeks were primarily spent on the well, which is now (almost) finished. So, our biweekly video focuses on our voyage into the earth, in a search for ground water. We begin with a homebrew rig that is difficult to use because we cannot easily...
Well – Solar Turbine – LifeTrac Day 1
We have finally completed our water well-drilling adventure. Everything that could went wrong – amounting to a 2 month delay – but the bottom line is that we have a 4 inch-bore well that we estimate is giving us 1000 gallons of water per day...
Down on the Farm: Wild Strawberries and Global Swadeshi
It has taken me a while to allow my experiences and inspirations from this weekend at Factor E to gestate, to ferment into tangible thoughts that I can easily disseminate to readers. Being lucky enough to sit down with Brittany and Marcin and talk face...
On Progress
Here is an overview of our overall program of action: On the CEB Press for building – we are presently building the LifeTrac tractor – an agriculture, construction, and general utility device. This device is remarkably pedestrian in appearance...
Factor e Live
Change is continuous at Factor e Farm. You may have seen this post on how our place has evolved from a plain soybean field to rich diversity on many fronts. To record these changes as they happen, we have begun the Factor e Live series. These are videos,...
