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I've been clearing land all day and bought 50lbs of buckwheat. I intend to try sowing/harvesting by hand. I will use this mostly for breads and pastries. This i

I've been clearing land all day and bought 50lbs of buckwheat. I intend to try sowing/harvesting by hand. I will use this mostly for breads and pastries. This is something of an experiment. Building skills, I'm almost finished a chicken coop. I made a dry stone arch bridge but it failed because the frame sank, I will try again. I am learning carving to make wooden animal toys for my child, who will be born in July (I have made a bear and a fox, soon an elephant, but they still need to be sanded). I would like to learn timber framing and make a small cabin on the land but it may be too expensive, now. I'm trying to make an animated village for my site background with HTML Canvas, and originally I was making it procedurally, but its too ugly, so I will have to learn some digital illustration until it's beautiful.

doctoboggan 7y ago
You should look into Fabric.js, it makes working with an html canvas much easier, especially if you are animating it.
CalRobert 7y ago
If you have any pictures available (especially of this bridge) I'd be curious to see. Are you tilling? Doing raised beds? We're planting a bit this year and dealing with weeds, etc. has been a hassle (also, most of the no-dig crowd seem to basically advocate using many tons of compost, which is great but not something you can assume a steady supply of)
- simonsarris 7y ago
  There are lots of photos in this thread for the stone: https://twitter.com/simonsarris/status/1234186085200207872?s=19p https://twitter.com/simonsarris/status/1234186085200207872?s... We're making semi raised beds up the hill: https://twitter.com/simonsarris/status/1246544902193909769?s=19 https://twitter.com/simonsarris/status/1246544902193909769?s... With house compost and composted manure from a local farmer. The lower garden is mostly no till with added compost. We're not really sure what we're doing! So I can't really give advice. I usually document what I'm working on on Twitter as a micro blog
  - japhyr 7y ago
    I grew up in Nashua, and when I looked at your posts about restoring your home it made me nostalgic for New Hampshire. I live in Alaska now and hope to spend the rest of my life here, but NH has the feeling of home that you can only get from having a childhood there. I found your posts a while back, and I always enjoy looking at what you've been up to when I haven't seen it for a while. I used to run and bike past so many houses that look like this, and some part of me always wanted to do what you're doing. So thank you for sharing your journey!
    - mraza007 7y ago
      Out of curiosity How’s life in Alaska. It has always been a dream for me to move to Alaska since its a beautiful state and last thing what about the jobs there
      - japhyr 7y ago
        I love Alaska. I live in Sitka, which is a small town on the side of an island. We have about 10k people, but our town is a 14-mile by 1/2 mile strip of land on a 100-mile long island that's almost entirely wilderness. I like that we're a big enough town to have a thriving community - good educational opportunities, a variety of work available, an impressive arts community. But you can walk into the woods anywhere at the edge of town and immediately find yourself in actual wilderness. Subsistence is also a way of life for most people - almost everyone has a freezer with fish and wild game that they caught themselves. The virus is going to have a serious impact here, like so many places. So many people depend on the summer tourism season to make a living. There are charter fishing operations, tour operations, retail operations. Those people and businesses will make almost nothing this year. And when this is over, how long will it take people to be able to afford summer travel again?
    - simonsarris 7y ago
      Ah I grew up in Nashua too, at 37 Orange street, if you've ever seen the house (An 1840's house, just at the start of the downtown historic district)
pvaldes 7y ago
> I'm almost finished a chicken coop May I suggest welded mesh?
samizdis 7y ago
You might be interested in this chap's work. He came to prominence after his construction of a home was covered on a TV programme here in the UK. The link here is about that house - and the TV programme is well worth watching, too - and the rest of the site is about eco-building etc. https://ben-law.co.uk/ecobuilding/the-woodland-house/ https://ben-law.co.uk/ecobuilding/the-woodland-house/
wigl 7y ago
When you get around to milling the buckwheat, see if you can get some coarse ground flour from both the kernel and husk. With it you can make inaka (country style) soba, which is really quite special. Buckwheat makgeoli is also easy and tasty.
thorwasdfasdf 7y ago
sweet. I just made some buckwheat crepes the other day. Buckwheat is really high in magnesium which is awesome

doctoboggan 7y ago

You should look into Fabric.js, it makes working with an html canvas much easier, especially if you are animating it.

CalRobert 7y ago

If you have any pictures available (especially of this bridge) I'd be curious to see. Are you tilling? Doing raised beds? We're planting a bit this year and dealing with weeds, etc. has been a hassle (also, most of the no-dig crowd seem to basically advocate using many tons of compost, which is great but not something you can assume a steady supply of)

simonsarris 7y ago
There are lots of photos in this thread for the stone: https://twitter.com/simonsarris/status/1234186085200207872?s=19p https://twitter.com/simonsarris/status/1234186085200207872?s... We're making semi raised beds up the hill: https://twitter.com/simonsarris/status/1246544902193909769?s=19 https://twitter.com/simonsarris/status/1246544902193909769?s... With house compost and composted manure from a local farmer. The lower garden is mostly no till with added compost. We're not really sure what we're doing! So I can't really give advice. I usually document what I'm working on on Twitter as a micro blog
- japhyr 7y ago
  I grew up in Nashua, and when I looked at your posts about restoring your home it made me nostalgic for New Hampshire. I live in Alaska now and hope to spend the rest of my life here, but NH has the feeling of home that you can only get from having a childhood there. I found your posts a while back, and I always enjoy looking at what you've been up to when I haven't seen it for a while. I used to run and bike past so many houses that look like this, and some part of me always wanted to do what you're doing. So thank you for sharing your journey!
  - mraza007 7y ago
    Out of curiosity How’s life in Alaska. It has always been a dream for me to move to Alaska since its a beautiful state and last thing what about the jobs there
    - japhyr 7y ago
      I love Alaska. I live in Sitka, which is a small town on the side of an island. We have about 10k people, but our town is a 14-mile by 1/2 mile strip of land on a 100-mile long island that's almost entirely wilderness. I like that we're a big enough town to have a thriving community - good educational opportunities, a variety of work available, an impressive arts community. But you can walk into the woods anywhere at the edge of town and immediately find yourself in actual wilderness. Subsistence is also a way of life for most people - almost everyone has a freezer with fish and wild game that they caught themselves. The virus is going to have a serious impact here, like so many places. So many people depend on the summer tourism season to make a living. There are charter fishing operations, tour operations, retail operations. Those people and businesses will make almost nothing this year. And when this is over, how long will it take people to be able to afford summer travel again?
  - simonsarris 7y ago
    Ah I grew up in Nashua too, at 37 Orange street, if you've ever seen the house (An 1840's house, just at the start of the downtown historic district)

pvaldes 7y ago

> I'm almost finished a chicken coop May I suggest welded mesh?

samizdis 7y ago

You might be interested in this chap's work. He came to prominence after his construction of a home was covered on a TV programme here in the UK. The link here is about that house - and the TV programme is well worth watching, too - and the rest of the site is about eco-building etc. https://ben-law.co.uk/ecobuilding/the-woodland-house/ https://ben-law.co.uk/ecobuilding/the-woodland-house/

wigl 7y ago

When you get around to milling the buckwheat, see if you can get some coarse ground flour from both the kernel and husk. With it you can make inaka (country style) soba, which is really quite special. Buckwheat makgeoli is also easy and tasty.

thorwasdfasdf 7y ago

sweet. I just made some buckwheat crepes the other day. Buckwheat is really high in magnesium which is awesome