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August 2023

Pumpkins are life
Life is for pumpkins
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KW-31 Working around the rain
They did promise us weird weather, I guess
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Photos of food
This week, we’re starting to ramp up the preparations for the final week of the Collapse Laboratory - One Week to Save the World. If you’re going to…
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July 2023

The natural wilderness around the lake
One of the most amazing parts of the barracks is down by the lake. It changes character completely between the seasons, but also year to year. The…
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A room for every occasion.
The most useful thing about having 300 rooms is that you can decide that one of them is to be the Onion Drying Room. And another can be the Wheat…
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Peas and beans and tools of the trade
Slowly, we are starting to eat the fat of the land. Potatoes and onions and lettuce have been on the plate for a few weeks now. It’s a wonderful day…
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That week of the year when things start to look good.
It’s the first week of July and the sun is drumming down hard on the earth. Nothing escapes, and I’m out here weeding. Still, it looks nice! I’m never…
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June 2023

Here come the fruits!
First Timers We plant our fruit trees as soon as we can, because they can take a few years to get big and strong enough to actually make fruits. A brave…
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The Three Little Pigs
It was just under three years ago that the piggies came to the barracks. They are now amongst the oldest pigs in Europe. The big plan was that this…
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Orchard Special
One of these days, one of these years, I’m going to take a beautiful photographs of the orchard. I had a visit from the Forester this week, and it is…
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Joy, fun and seasons in the sun.
All of my machines are out of service, meaning everything must be done by hand. The weather in April compressed time frames for doing all the things…
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