Day: 47
Date: June 27, 2014
Mission: New Chicken Coup (and No! the chickens have not revolted) and Bling party to celebrate the summer solstice and St. John’s Day
After a discussion about the location of the chicken coup, the chicken run, and the need for a solar panel “shed”, the previously proposed (and started!) chicken coup project has been diverted to what will now become the solar panel “shed”. We needed a place to put all the batteries and electrical equipment for the solar panel stuffs, and the location that we were going to use for the chicken coup is ideal considering the amount of sunlight the area gets! The nice thing is that the building we are building will work perfectly, and we still get to build the cool cordwood structure we wanted (see pictures from previous chicken coup post).
Jim has started, and nearly completed, a new, much simpler chicken coup structure made from an old table and reclaimed wood pieces (see the pictures below). We don’t obviously have a picture of the completed structure yet but we shall post one when it is finished and set in place, with the new clucks-clucks and everything!!
On a personal note, we went to a 2-day electronic music party this last weekend to celebrate Jaanipäev (St. John’s Day and near the summer solstice) and it was a total blast! We volunteered because we know the organizers and they needed help (plus free entry was a nice perk!) and we got to meet many great people as a result. So we cooked food for sale both nights, made delicious chocolate chip/apricot cookies, and ran the bar/snack area. It was located in Raudsilla, which is a ridiculously cute and beautiful little hobbit-esque centre! Sadly, we have no pictures…
Estonian Permaculture Crew 