This weekend there will be the usual Friday open mic, but on Saturday there’s a new exhibition opening: Consciousness: Visual & Vibrational. Here’s a sneak peak of a piece I’m working on for the show, The Territorial Claims of Antarctica. Hope you can make it out to see this and more! OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, May 1, 7 – 9 PM, Open Mic every Friday 8 PM – 1 AM, R.A.T. Gallery
Archive for April, 2010
Preparing for a Weekend of Art & Music at R.A.T. Gallery
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged art, community, events, music on April 27, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Poultry Care: Figuring It Out as We Go Along
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged brooding, chick starting, chickens, chicks, ducklings, ducks, food, pests on April 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
It seems lately, that each time I go for a trip, I come back feeling an increasing urgency to keep up with the demands of spring. It’s not a stressful kind of urgency, but the voice of a season that says in each breath, “Look alive.” This time the excursion was to Brooklyn, to visit [...]
How to Build the Easiest Cold Frame Ever
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged building, cold frame on April 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A cold frame is kind of like a mini greenhouse, protecting tender plants from frost so you can harvest salad through the winter or get a head start on summer crops. Plants grown in a cold frame will be stronger than those started indoors; a day with the glass removed is enough to harden them [...]
New baby chicks & ducklings!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged brooding, chick starting, chickens, chicks, ducklings, ducks on April 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
… or as Lee likes to call them, “chicklings.”
Chicken Tractor, version 1.0
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ark, building, chicken tractor, chickens, coop on April 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s our new chicken tractor, housing 5 happy hens, built with scrap wood and chicken wire. Even though we move it every day or so, there are many advantages of a chicken tractor over a stationary coop. We don’t have to let them out early in the morning or close them up at night (we get to take vacations!), or clean out a coop, and they mow the lawn. Plus we’ve been letting them scratch at our future garden beds, eating the grass, aerating the soil, and fertilizing with their poops. It’s the portrait of mutual benefit!
Seeding Time: Sowing Indoors
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged germination, seed saving, seeding, sowing, sprouting on April 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Seed starting is one of my favorite farm tasks. Watching a tiny seed germinate, leaf out, and flourish in the garden is quite magical. We sometimes buy starts if we just want one or two of a common plant, but for a staggering selection of varieties, and to have enough to share with friends, sowing [...]
