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Sustainability and Renewal

The secret to sustainability is finding ways to reintegrate waste and produce more than you started with. Repeat and add diversity.

Sustainability and Renewal

Things Break, And You Must Replace Them

Living on an urban farm you learn three things real quick: If it can go wrong it will so have a backup plan The sun and the winter corrodes everything Things are not as important as ideas I was out…

Example of the IBC spigot
My wildly useful 1000L IBC rain barrel nozzle snapped.

Applied STEM, Not a Meth House

When I tried to bronze chain in oil in our oven and discovered Applied STEM, not a meth house.

Rick comes upon my Applied STEM wonderland.

Ecosystems Exist in 3D, X, Y, and Z

A philosophical treatise on the deep relationship between the soil below, the ground and the air above. Told by a tree

The tree, the hornbeam allee, the alley, and the mains power lines running along the southern edge of Mezzacello.

Lesson: The Circle Of Life

A core lesson on the way nature uses simple ideas, deep math, and repeating patterns to create life. We explore these patterns.