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No cellulose anything for me thanks.

Keep your #woodchips
#FillerNotFood

Never know when you need a hand forged iron ring to ballast your rope so you can throw it over the 5m high roof beam in the barn. Good thing I kept that.

Hoisted that sack of fresh woodchips up there, out of the way. Let's see if they dry like that or just get mouldy. Or drop on my head in a surprise attack.

#Rope #Barn #Homestead #Sack #Woodchips

Woodchipper experiment. Straight to bag. Worked surprisingly well, except for the bag filling up real fast.

I wonder if this will dry if I just hoist it into the rafters of the barn like that. Lets find out!

#Woodchipper #Tractor #Woodchips #Chipping #Homestead #Wood #Maple

More woodchips. Maple edition with Virginia creeper that was inseparable.

Kinda annoying to feed into the chipper as it was all stuck together with those annoying vines, so you couldn't just pick up one branch at a time.

Now it's keeping the mud at bay where the cars park.

That concludes the woodchipping for now. Got some branch piles left in the forest, but upon inspection they were a lot smaller than I remembered :)

#WoodChipper #Homestead #Woodchips #Trailer #Garden #Remet

No mud in front of the barn this winter, thanks to the chipped spruce branches.

Spreading woodchips in all the mud areas works really well. Last year I was slipping around in the mud on that very spot.

#WoodChips #BioGravel #Homestead

#StarIsland a model of #EnvironmentalStewardship

#GreenGosport Initiative puts ideals into action at #IslesOfShoals

by Deborah McDermott, June 30, 2019

Excerpt:
"The [wastewater] treatment plant is the last significant piece in the Green Gosport Initiative, named after the 17th century town that once existed on the island. For the better part of 10 years, Star Island Corporation has been working to become a #sustainable community.

"The initiative has included the installation of the solar array in 2015, which has reduced by more than 75% the amount of diesel fuel for the generators that once powered everything on the island. Electricity consumption has dropped by more than 35% by making a change to LED lights and purchasing energy-efficient appliances in the kitchen. All disposable packaging, utensils and straws are biodegradable, and there are bins everywhere that encourage guests to properly dispose of their waste.

"#Sludge from the treatment plant is dried and composted with waste #cardboard and #WoodChips, instead of being sent to a #landfill. The #composting program began in 2014, and last year for the first time, the first batch was ready for testing by the state. It was so clean 'we got approval this spring to use that product without restriction, anywhere. So this spring, we used it as mulch in the flower pots,' Simard said."

Read more:
https://www.fosters.com/story/news/2019/06/30/star-island-model-of-environmental-stewardship/4796138007/

#SolarPunkSunday #Gosport #ZeroWaste #Composting