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Revision as of 23:30, 12 October 2020
Students: ANYA JENSEN, BLAKE BLANCETT, CARLOS GODINEZ, DREW CHASSE, DYLAN MERZENICH, JASMINE KAMDAR, JEREMY SKOLER, KATIE GOLDSTEIN, LEON SANTEN, MIA SKAGGS, NICOLA VAN MOON, ODALYS BENITEZ, RILEY ZITO, SEBASTIAN CALVO, WHITNEY XU
August
16 - Drew, Whitney, and Leon arrived at the farm
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18 - Sebastian, Mia, and Jeremy arrived
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25 - Jasmine and Carlos arrived
26 - Dylan, Riley, and Katie arrived
27 - Blake arrived
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29 - Odalys, Anya, and Nicola arrived
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September
1 - Micro-hydro is connected outputting around 70W.
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3 - Kayaking and tubing trip
4 - Jasmine’s birthday, three solar panels connected (rated for 600W, outputting around 230W)
5 - first game night
6 — met to work on planning end design for buildings
7 - first newsletter, group visioning and commitments for the semester
8 - first day of classes for Olin students. A little bit of a rocky start with the WiFi connection. We also cleared the space for the octagon by cutting poplars and sassafras. Evened out the ground for the crones cottage and extended the dam for the pond.
9 - officially broke ground all together. Finished digging and planting 4 posts for the crones cottage. Accidentally put one of the posts in the wrong spot by 11 inches so we redug and replanted. Ate such yummy dumplings for dinner.
10 - dug 9 holes for the octagon and planted 2 posts.
11 - connected MPPT solar charge controller with the three solar panels outputting more than 300W during peak hours.
12 - took a rest day for the rain and played games, read, baked, and cleaned the main house. Took bunkbeds and flooring out of the bus.
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14 - started underpinning of crown's cottage
15 - sent out second newsletter. Had so much power coming into our batteries that we plugged in The fridge for the first time
16 - Riley and Dylan moved into Bus
17 - rainy day. Played games and made bread.
18 - finished the octagon joists and moved new lumber.
19 - Cob oven workshop. Learned how to mix clay and sand to make cob and then put a lotus on the cob oven.
20 - Had our weekly Sunday meeting and brunch. Are crepes :). Took a photo with the octagon joists.
21 - Learned how to put down sub-flooring. Finishing joists on crones cottage.
22 - cut octagon sub-flooring and filled in crones sub-flooring. Had a celebration for the equinox.
23 - Put up 3 walls of the octogenarian and cut crones sub-floorings. Fixed the microhydro turbine- current was running backwards.
24 - planned out sub flooring for treehouse Andy measured boards to cut.
Oct
03 decided to move into the sun with tiny cabin.
04 - decided to go without chore chart besides cooking and AM animals; cleared out new place for tiny cabin, cut down trees.
12 - broke second ground on tiny house and finished six post holes. Three crones wall frames are up
