Heartwood Food Sustainability

Several of Heartwood's members are working on building out the food sustainability of the neighborhood. While this video is not about us, it is a great video showing what is possible.

Garden Common Meal at Heartwood Cohousing

Bevan and Mimi have spearheaded a push to have food grown on site here and recently celebrated a successful start to that effort. They hosted a common meal that included locally grown food from Heartwood and LaBoca Ranch.




Great weather and a great meal.

Natural Building

Heartwood has seven alternative construction home. Three straw-clay, four strawbale, one straw-clay & strawbale hybrid, and one pumice-crete. Some features of these homes include earth plasters, timber-frame, earth floors, breathable walls, deep window seats, wooden ceiling.

Draft Horse Soil Preparation

Eric Husted and his team of draft horses preparing the pasture soil for reseeding, May 2008. A group of dedicated people reseeded the pasture, revitalizing the fields. They are green and beautiful!! Eric loves working the land and is spending the summer at the LaBoca Center for Sustainability growing food. (photos by Mario P. Manzo)

And Tennis Lessons too

After some delay... (Cough Cough)

The Tennis court is now up and running. Recently we have had some Tennis Lessons start for the kids. I stopped today and took a couple of shots for all to see.

New Chicken Fence (More room for the Ladies)

We expanded our Chicken Enclosure recently. We probably doubled our number of chickens by adding a bunch of chicks.

We probably quintupled the area available for the chickens to roam. Here are a few pictures of the hard working crew who showed up on Saturday to put up the fence. Now the chickens are happily chasing grasshoppers all over the ET beds.

Passing Thunderstorm with Rainbow at Heartwood Cohousing

Just last week we had a passing thunderstorm to the south of us. It created this beautiful Rainbow that I was able to catch from my front deck.

It is "Monsoon" season here. That basically means that we have bright sunny morning (often cool and crisp). Then it warms through the day and there is then a chance of a thunderstorm in the afternoon.