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.

New Fence Posts for the Chickens

One of the ongoing projects here at Heartwood Cohousing is an expansion of the chickens. Right now there are about 15 chickens is a small pen. The "yard" is next to an ET bed (evapotranspiration bed). So we are expanding the outside yard to include the ET bed as a place for the Chickens to roam. Ultimately the ET bed area will be compartmentalized so that the Chickens will be rotated through different areas of the ET bed.

So yesterday We took an auger and cut about 15 post holes into the clay around the bed. Next step is to get the fence up and let the ladies roam.

Kite Flying at Heartwood Cohousing

We have started a new group here at Heartwood that is focused on he boys and dads. Not to oversimplify it, but we get together to interact in an organized way.



So a couple of weeks ago we got together and built kites. I have to say I was worried about it myself. I didn't really think I was going to be able to build one successfully.

Well I was wrong. It was awesome and all the kites flew. None survived the flights, but they all at least flew well once.

Check out how much fun this was.

Willie Wonka in Durango

The Durango Arts Center has a children's program called "Applause" This season, Nichol, Robin and Kate all took part.

CandyMan, Grandma and an Umpa Lumpa. (How the heck do you spell that anyway?)