Industry Standard Cooking Video
This is a video that Molly made when she was here a few weeks ago. We have plenty of eggs from our chickens, and here’s the standard of what we do with them. You can call it Depression Cooking Lesson 1, in the style of this.
Kidding at Factor e Farm
There was some kidding going on at factor e Farm on April 15: The goat exloded once then twice. After the first baby was born, mama goat stood up, and the second goat dropped right on the ground with a sloshing thump. What an event. I felt abundance as...
Moving Forward: Solar Village
Jeremy and I had some serious discussion on the goals for this year, and here are our conclusions for the Core Team from the conversation: CEB Press and LifeTrac taken to product release by end of 2009 – led by Marcin Hexahatch taken to product...
Facility Sanitation Improvement (by a factor of ‘e’)
To our colonic relief, we added a second composting toilet, a public outhouse with privacy. Now no one needs to wonder who is going to enter the vestibule while performing defecation maneuvers. Albeit temporary, it satisfies our immediate needs. Thanks...
Last Frost Date
Two days ago marked the last frost date. I took a video walkthough – on the plant life and landscape of Factor e Farm. This is to record the natural history and evolution of our place – not only for seasonal, but yearly, changes. Fruit trees...
Health and the Future of Factor e
Molly and I built a hand washing station and I put together a shower Factor e Farm. This post is an analysis of the sanitation issues rooted in geography, infrastructure, and human use following Christopher Alexander’s guidelines for design analysis....
Liberator 2 CEB Design
Over the past few days, Marcin and I have been working on the design of The Liberator 2 – the second prototype of our high-performance CEB press. The design is now up for review. The main changes are an enlarged, stationary hopper structure, guide...
Upcoming Presentations: Illinois and Austria
You can see our past presentation from the Oekonux Conference here. Edward Miller, one of our True Fans, has organized a university lecture for us at Monmouth College in Illinois on April 22, 2009. If you’re in the surrounding area, please consider...
Hands-on Hexacube Review
What follows is my personal experience and my evaluation of the design, if you want a quick read jump ahead to the evaluation at the end. According to Marcin and Jeremy I’m the only person to have slept in the Hexacube in below freezing conditions.
