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10 Jan 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Solominer
In the early Spring female solitary Bees were busy building homes for their offspring. I took some Bamboo I had sitting around and cut them into big and small pieces. The Mason Bees laid their larvae and left pollen pellets inside and sealed up the...
23 Dec 2019 1 minute read 0 comments Solominer
I got to see inside of this trailer I have heard so much about. Its a two wheel travel trailer that had been covered in solar panels on top and the sides of the trailer. With this amount of solar input, he can produce almost two kilowatts of power. I...
5 Dec 2019 1 minute read 0 comments Solominer
The Solitary Bees should like the homes im building for them. Though in my last batch of boards I made I had an issue with the center hole. It was offset and made an imperfect circle. From what ive read and watched, the Mason and Leafcutter bees...
4 Dec 2019 1 minute read 3 comments Solominer
I set up my new camera on a tripod, and had it record me pulling up the Sweet Potatoes. I used a small hand rake and separated the vines so I could see the surface of the bed. Lovely Logic holds a bucket for me and I pass her spuds as I pull them fro...
18 Nov 2019 1 minute read 0 comments Solominer
After pulling them out of the ground and cleaning them up nicely, I placed them on my table and got a closer look at them. Otherwise they would have just been consumed and I wouldn't have had any pretty pictures of the spuds pulled from the ground....
13 Nov 2019 2 minute read 0 comments Solominer
We guessed how many pounds of Potatoes before we started, vastly underestimated the yield. We thought we would get three to six pounds since only one Sweet Potato was planted in early spring. But as soon as we started digging we quickly past our esti...
2 Aug 2019 1 minute read 0 comments Solominer
Over the last month or so the berries have been ripening. Many birds have taken berries but we had so many this year we were able to harvest close to a pound or two of berries. I wear my head actioncam and record picking them with Lovely Logic. We fr...
27 Jul 2019 1 minute read 2 comments Solominer
About a month ago we picked some of the early Blueberries off the bushes, I used my actioncam on my head to get a point of view video so you can see what I see. Lovely Logic and I walk around and pick off ripe berries, checking them before pulling t...
23 Jul 2019 2 minute read 0 comments Solominer
I am in the process of reconditioning the landscape on the property I live on. Theres a few reasons for this, one is the erosion that occurs due to our frequent and heavy rains. I have procured truckloads of mulch, which I use to cover an...
19 Jul 2019 1 minute read 0 comments Solominer
With summer and the humidity ramping up, I am finding myself with a surplus of water coming off the two air conditioners, every few days I have over fifty gallons of water collected from our AC units. During the winter there is no water to collect, b...
