! Josiah’s Bootcamp Log

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Today we seeded peas, beets, chard, kale, bok choy, turnips, arugula, mustard, radish, garbanzo beans, quinoa, fennel, carrots and alfalfa. Seeding polyculture is fun.

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Today Dustin showed us how to gather brush in a fun and efficient manner.

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Today’s post is about death at Wheaton labs.

I took the notes from our last Allerton Abbey planning meeting and made an updated base map. The next step is to map out the placement of terraces and hugelkultur.

Hey Josiah, is South to the upper right or lower left in that picture?  The sun icon tells me South is to the upper right.  

Then is the greywater greenhouse facing away from the sun?  I'm assuming the curved lines are the hill it's sunk into?

The sun arrow points south.

Note that the wofati was sited to minimize solar gain in order to test whether enough heat would be in the mass of the berm. I personally would put in some solar collection to heat the core of the berm. Climate batteries are usually designed to bury heat deep in the mass during hot weather so the surface of  the mass is still cooling the interior of the structure then the slow migration of the heat reaches the interior of the structure during the cold weather.  So far the performance indicates that the interior of the berm is not warm enough to prevent cooling  the interior below comfort level because it can only add heat when the temperature of the interior drops below the berm temperature. I would want the core of the berm to be at least 80 degrees by September.

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