Green Acres Permaculture Village

Two Events, Mid-October: Work Party and Community Dinner

By AnnOctober 25, 2024Uncategorized

October 20, first event, another work party.

We do them every Sunday, three to four hours, with lunch afterwards. After clearing and redesigning the corner of DeKist and Overhill on October 7, this time we cleared, and made a path through, the DeKist side of the street, which also involved taking out a small but mighty tree. That tree had been shading part of the main garden, so now more sun there for next year’s growing season.

Hard at work . . .

Job completed!

Lunch afterwards is always fun, both a reward for work well done, and a chance to decide what is needed next.

October 24, second event: Community Dinner

This year we’ve been holding Community Dinners (for neighbors, relatives, friends) twice a month (having scaled back from once a week for the last ten years). Given the unusually warm temperatures this October, we scheduled our second Community Dinner outside on the patio, where we have been holding them each time since late spring.

However, by 7 PM, when Dinners are scheduled to begin, on November 24 it’s already dark! Should we hold it outside anyway, and just make sure there’s plenty of light? We decided yes. One more time, this fine year.

We were understandably concerned that the event would be too dark to appreciate, and possibly too cold after the sun went down but neither were true. The eleven of us had a great time, having taken every opportunity to light the place, with newly strung Christmas lights, candles on tables, the yurt lit up from the inside, and a fire in our portable fire pit. Great fun.

Hope you can pick up the flavor with these darkish pics.

Green Acres Village, early October:

By AnnOctober 7, 2024Urban Farm, Village

It’s been about six months since I posted on this site. So much happening! Don’t really have time to post today either, but do want to update the site to reflect a bit of what’s going on in our tiny paradise.

To do so, I will simply ask you to click on this blogpost, which I just put up on my personal site, annkreilkamp.net. It depicts, in words and photos, yesterday’s work party and reflects a bit, on the past few months.

At Green Acres, Balancing the Opposites, Here and Now

Late April: Garden and other photos, with commentary

By AnnApril 28, 2024Urban Farm, Village

Wow. More than a month has passed since last post. Too much to do around here — given that it’s planting season —and not enough time, much less remembering to record it! Even so, I share a set of recent photos — with commentary — just so you know we’re still kicking! (And still in the midst of our transformation. More on that in a month or so.)

Joseph and Nathan busy planting more berry bushes, plus garden scenes, greenhouse interior. And one more.

I’ll pull out this one from the above, because it offers perspective, starting with turned over wheelbarrows, crossing the patio where we hold twice monthly Community Dinners, going back to yurt. Haven’t planted the nearby pot yet. With what? Not sure. And we’ve got to do something with the gross grey “blob” (an outdoor grill we haven’t used for years . . .)

Carissa Carman, who lives across the street with her young family, the youngest shown here! works with us in the main garden.

From the above medley, I’ve pulled out the ones that refer to the amazing cover for steps at the Overhill house I live in. Thanks to former resident Charisse, who was with us for ten years, we now have kiwi vines coming up from below, so thick now, that last year two doves built their nest within them.

Notice the tiny berries, just starting to form? Last year a late frost wiped them all out. Hopefully, better luck this year!

And two more . . . the first one ugly (dirty window, no composition to speak of), but informative. I was standing at the kitchen sink yesterday, when what should I see?

A squirrel’s tail . . . see above, about 3/4 across, from the left, hanging off the roof.