Seed of Life ~ Texas Hill Country

We were quoted an exorbitant among to haul away our concrete. Our solution use everything on site to some other advantage. Rip Rap has many many uses: including creating retaining walls and especially for fill

Being good Beatles fans... We could not help ourselves

a play by play video of what we did to prepare the soil, the hole, and taking the plant out of the pot

We were put in the tough position of having to take out a few teenager trees to allow a vehicle to get from the higher part of the land to the lower part. Luckily, we got a great connection nearby who sold us a few indiscriminant varieties of Paw Paw which we had planned to plant as understory plants in the forested area. So as the old trees go, new ones will come along.

Using natural scents as a deterrent to keep animals away from our freshly planted trees.

Garry Conner of Conner Concrete tells us of coming to the land to get cold sodas after a day of picking peaches in Stonewall, Texas.

Ever had fresh concrete and had the desire to write in it? Here's a couple of tips on how to make a successful imprint.

A few thoughts, observations and tips on our first concrete pour day.

We go to a fireplace store where there are literally piles and piles of free wood palettes. Many you have to pick through, but there are solid 2x4s and even 2x6s in the mix, perfect for our many projects we have in mind.

When we first landed on on the Land we broke out a version of Bing Crosby singing Deep in the Heart of Texas. Just sharing a silly moment of sheer joy!

Watch as a Chicken Snake or Rat Snake - this friendly large non-venomous snake slides easily up a tree. The other sound you here is not a rattler, but insects in the trees.

By burying drain pipes underground we can collect the ambient stable temperature of the earth and move that cold air in summer and warmer air in winter up into the greenhouse to stabilize that temperature during extreme seasonal weather. Luckily, being in Central Texas, we do not have to deal with desert heat or hard-core snow... so this shallow geothermal system should be just fine.

These are the old fashioned balsa wood models that anand created to understand how the land is formed and how some of the buildings might be laid out.

The Mermaid Club in Johnson City, TX was opened in the 1960s and we believe survived until the 1970s. It burned down sometime in the 1970s. If you have any information about it, please let us know. We would like to have pictures and stories and pay tribute to the history of what was here as much as possible.

Just walking around the land to show the relationships of where things are AND mainly to document where we are now so we can remember where we came from when everything gets built out! Also, looking inside one of the rock buildings from the 1800s.

We have used this technique before. You can plant more than one tree in a single plant hole. it is actually better than the typical 'fruit salad' grafting style of getting multiple fruits from an area. In this case the trees are pruned as a single plant and grow symbiotically.

Mr. Rogers Neighborhood for a new generation. This is for a children's show that we pitched a while back. Who wants to produce a fun show with us?