10-Meter Diet, Anyone?
June 9, 2009
The strawberries are going nuts in the bed just steps from the Eco-Shed’s front door. The gorgeous fruits shown here, harvested earlier this evening, tasted intense and sublime. Next up will be tayberries, raspberries, and blueberries–provided we can keep them away from the birds. We’re encouraging our guests to browse the coming bounty as the crops come into season, and we’ll be rolling this fruit into our baked goods and breakfast baskets.
A Lush Oasis
May 26, 2009
We planted the garden around The Eco-Shed last spring, and now that everything is more or less established, the place is currently exploding with life. Not too much food yet aside from the greens in the cold frames, the rhubarb, and some early broccoli rabe. The bees are furiously working the berry patches. The strawberries in particular have gone nuts; we’ll expect and encourage guests to browse the patch at will when the fruit appears in a few weeks.
As I write this from inside the Eco-Shed, we’re enjoying an invigorating spring rain. The rain isn’t loud on the steel roof above because there is more than a foot of spray-foam insulation between us. All that water up there is flowing down and through a pipe that travels underground through the garden, and empties into a 2,800-gallon cistern, or storage tank.
Later in the summer, when the sun is out and the plants are thirsty, we’ll pump that water, under pressure, back up to the garden. And here’s where you’ll see the results:
