We finally had time to finish most of the shelves in the main kitchen recently: The part by the door has a clear roof for natural light: While the workers were working on the shelves in the kitchen, we went ahead and did the kitchen in BaanLoiNaam also: In particular, this idea of Praew’s was…
Transplanting the seedlings for the experimental living gazebo
After planting the “takob” seeds for the living gazebo project and seeing them sprout, I figured it was time to transplant them into bigger pots this weekend. Here are a few photos… Here were the seedlings before we transplanted them: I’m targeting 16 saplings, two for each corner of an octagonal gazebo. I decided to…
Building a composting hacienda
The cages we built quite a while back for the compost piles we’ve had going for about two years have been almost perpetually overflowing, so I’ve been thinking for some time now that it is time to build something bigger and more permanent. In addition, it seems like a good idea to build a roof…
Planting the trees for an experimental living gazebo
I wrote recently about an inspiring video where they discussed growing a building from living trees rather than constructing it. So I decided to go ahead with a first experiment with the “takob” trees that grow quickly on our land. So we took some berries from the trees and planted them in a multiple section…
Chicken coop v2
We’ve been keeping chickens for over a year now, and seeing the fresh eggs each day is still quite a nice surprise. It is a really good feeling to eat what we produce on our little homestead. But the first chicken coop version had a lot of negatives. The roof was too low so I…
Growing a building from living trees
Yesterday, Praew showed me this fascinating video on YouTube: This architect uses living trees to grow the support structure for buildings over the course of several years. The crazy part is that the trees are alive for the lifetime of the building, so he needs to imagine how the building will evolve as the trees…
Sprinkler on the roof
We’ve been planning this test for a while now and we finally had a chance to run it. Since the workers took off for Songkran, they’ve been busy with other things. But we finally got a simple sprinkler on the roof of BaanMae. Our main goal here was just to do a feasibility test of…
BaanRimNaam now has a fence to keep the dogs in
We finally got around to building a low fence around BaanRimNaam to keep the dogs in. We’ve been keeping the dogs inside the house at night and they go nuts playing in the morning (every morning). It will be really nice to be able to let them out and know they can’t run too far…
Pond water level nearly full
About two months back I wrote about how the water level in the pond had dropped substantially from its high after the rainy season last year. Well it has been raining quite a bit over the last month and the pond is back to nearly full again. It is hard to see the overflow pipe…
Green wall continues to grow
I’ve been carrying water in to the planter box for the “green wall” in BaanLoiNaam every day over the past few weeks. Now the tallest of the cattails have grown up quite close to the level of the shower head: You can compare the height of the plants now to the level just a few…
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