Tools to help with the making of soda from juice. The
first pvc bottle holder is for assistance to screw off cap as the bottle
has expanded from the pressure of carbon dioxide aka CO2, and it will
sometime fizz over the top like when popping the cork from a champaine
bottle, the second pvc bottle holder is for the small 220ml bottle that we
pour the soda into, the last pvc holder is for the 1.5 liter bottle of
juice and the 2 days fermentation proccess, the black cover has two
purposes one to block sunlight and the other is if the water bottle cap
shoots off unexpectantly the mess is contained.
These Amaranth are very beautiful in so many ways,
it's really amazing
Amaranth are a really amazing plant like spinach and
way more nutricious and very delicious
Here's the pile of prickly weeds, I thought once I
have the majority of them picked I'd be able to rest, nope they keep on
growing super fast, it's like a never ending battle against those weeds.
Victory is futile!!
Costing just shy of $1 these comfortable welding glove fit perfect and
work better than expected at pulling out those nasty pickly weeds, and
they save your hands from lots of pokes and scrapes...
I added a 4 way split hub to the mix and we are
starting to plant the rice farm, so the need for 2 cow waters is no longer
needed, I also now have a 60 meter hose for the plants out on the entrance
way, so the blue hose goes to the entrance way, green hose goes to the
front of the house, one of the white hoses is for the cow water and the
other is for the plants at the rear of the house.
Here I added the quick connectors to the hoses to make
it even easier, every evening around 5 pm I top off the cows water, now
it's very simple and easy
To make things easier and well just so I can be lazy I rigged up a water
system we can fill both waters trophs for the cows without even putting on
our shoes
These wheels make cutting the burs down easy, we added
a ziptie slidable to activate the trigger adding great ease to the job.
Weighed into 350 gram bags and frozen
Cleaning with wire pad, it takes away the glossy
appearance and no chemicals
I'm sure happy we are growing our own food this is
awesome
There are so many birds out here it's crazy, these
ones love talking to me, sometimes.
Usually when I clap or yell dogs run away, not this
one he just looks at me and growls, when I got out the broom he starts
barking at me, just eat then and go dog!!
There is tons of dirt!!
This is the lake that the rubber tree farm looks over
They are coming alomg nicely, they seem to not enjoy full sun like 8-12
hours a day,
below are pictures of golden berry plants from a while back
This is one of many of our Golden Berry Plants
Very hot and wet here in thailand, thinking about the
time in bonnyville at the chinese restraunt, you remember dad, 55555
Adding ingredients to make liquid fertilizer
I used the PVC Parts from this to make the Drinking water shelf below
You can pretty much make anything you can dream up with PVC if you have
the right fittings
Each of the 5 units has 4 sections holding 22 bottles
per section totaling 440 bottles of liquid homemade organic fertilizer
Amaranth is like spinach but way more healthy and it
grows like crazy like 5 feet tall, and delicious boiled/steamed
Delicious - In Thai Language the word for squash is
fukiou(fuk-kee-ow like some one pinched you)
It takes a guava tree three years before it will
produce any fruit, well today was our lucky day, and was it ever delicious
First cucumbers of the year and they are delicious
Wow it's really amazing to see the speed they grow
very beautiful
I started building things out of PVC, it super easy
and super fun, you get to create your own things, it's really amazing, I'm
so excited I forget to eat many times!
This purple pea plant is growing like a weed
I erected this when I first arrived here about 4 months ago, and I filled
it to the top many times, magickly it automatically disappears. Who knows
where all the weeds and cow shit goes. It will remain a mystery.
I finished the Strawberry Beer and it is by far the most delicious
The Ginger Starter is the active and alive ingredient, 1/8 cup mixed
with 1 liter juice, it's the easiest of all to make, to start off 2 cups
water 1 tbs sugar 1 tbs cubed ginger, repeat the sugar and ginger 5 days
then reduce to 1 tbs each once a week, add water as needed.
Juice Beer Fermenting (Carrot, Passion Fruit)
Now I am making
Strawberry
I cut down all the weeds around the fence and layed black fabric I'll take
a picture of the new look soon
And after I chopped all the weeds and layed black barrier
and from the other side of the fence looking at the rear end
We added some white running flowers to make it more beautiful
and some red ones
and pink ones
and here is the sweet basil
With my mom's encouragement I finally finished
cleaning the tub below are the before and after pictures, using only a
dull knife and a wire pad (the kind used to scrub steel pots and pans and
stove)
Harvest Ant eggs are very popular among Thais, they add them to soup,
great source of protein. To collect the eggs they use a long bamboo stick
with a bag on the end then go tree by tree, the ants make nests in the
leaves it makes sort of a oblong kind of sphere and they store their eggs
in there, then Mr. Chef comes along and destroys the house built of leaves
and the eggs fall into the bag, later that day into the soup the eggs go.
Yummy
These purple peas turn green after cooked
Mamas Cute Purple Toilet
Young Cows just like teenagers mischeivious and up to no good, these
little bastards went on the road and Sister chased them back in the field
only to go back on the road, bad cows!
This is our dog Daun he howls at night like a warewolf sometime all the
dogs in the neighborhood join in
At the market there is never any mint, luckily our neighbor gave us some
mint roots, now they are growing super nice
all these aloe vera came from that one small white pot
This mini banana reminded me of Marty, long and skinny, ask Dad about that
one