This post from Living Web Farms’ Ian Ruckriegel covers the creation of a small-scale mushroom spawn lab and simple methods for making mushroom spawn for use around a small farm. Ian recently led an online workshop covering this same material. A video can be seen here. My goal here is to give someone that may […]
Batteries have become such a ubiquitous part of life that we often don’t give them much thought until they fail. At that point, they’re an inconvenience, an unwanted expense, and to most of us a profound mystery. Yet they’ve brought so much accessibility to our lives that it would be difficult to imagine getting by […]
Like everyone else, Living Web Farms is adapting to the changing circumstances of the Covid-19 pandemic. Expanded farm operations and food donations are now top priority. We’ve started a new short-form, rough-edit video series for sharing immediately relevant information and a few weeks ago we offered our first of should be many free webcast workshops. […]
In the fall of last year I led a short workshop covering some homestead applications of common wood stove ashes. It was the first of what I hope will become one of many “Waste Not:” workshops hosted out of the Living Web Farms’ biochar facility. Later this year I’ll discuss the myriad applications – of […]
It’s been over a year since our last blog post, but the Biochar Facility at Living Web Farms is still a busy place. In addition to keeping our batch biochar retort system in production we’re constantly exploring the nexus of all things sustainable technology and regenerative agriculture. Our 2020 workshops are covering a boggling […]
by Patryk Battle Steven M Drucker has authored an incredibly important book. Jane Goodall says it’s “one of the most important books of the last 50 years” and is deserving of a Nobel Prize. Another reviewer compares its capacity to drive change in public policy to the impact of Ralph Nader’s book Unsafe at Any […]
Last time I wrote about controls, things got a little dense real fast. If all of the talk of switches and relays seemed to lack any relevance, then stay put, because this month I’ll skip ahead and show some real concrete examples of ways we use low voltage controls around on our farm. Review the […]
Climate change– its causes and effects, its crusaders and its naysayers– is one of the top issues of our time. For Nate Kleinman, who used to work in disaster relief, it’s the work of his life. On February 24th, Living Web Farms will host Kleinman for a full day workshop on addressing climate change on […]
Last weekend I had the privilege of leading Living Web’s first workshop for 2018. Tech workshops tend to work best in the winter, before the growing season kicks in. Cold weather and a stiff wind kept us in the classroom and bundled up tight for a brief tour of some of the low voltage […]
by Richard Freudenberger, Living Web Farms Resource and Alternative Energy Coordinator Call it firewood, biomass or solid fuel, it’s still one of the most reliable ways to heat your home—but only if you do it right. Even long-time wood-burners can disagree on what is “right,” so we’re going to do our best to clear the […]
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