Archive for June, 2008
Monday, June 23rd, 2008
A Photo Journey from the Weekend of the Solstice
The well is nearing completion. Despite the ever decreasing depth of our hole, you can see water not far below the surface. If we’re lucky, we’ll end up with a year-round shallow well. If we’re not so lucky, it will be a seasonal one.
Here’s Marcin and me covered in black slime. …
2 Comments » - Posted in Abundance by Brittany
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Factor E Live 2
The last two weeks were primarily spent on the well, which is now (almost) finished. So, our biweekly video focuses on our voyage into the earth, in a search for ground water. We begin with a homebrew rig that is difficult to use because we cannot easily raise and lower it. …
2 Comments » - Posted in Factor e Live,Water Well Drilling by Brittany
Sunday, June 15th, 2008
Well – Solar Turbine – LifeTrac Day 1
We have finally completed our water well-drilling adventure. Everything that could went wrong – amounting to a 2 month delay – but the bottom line is that we have a 4 inch-bore well that we estimate is giving us 1000 gallons of water per day based on the pumping that we have done so …
22 Comments » - Posted in Accomplishments,Compressed Earth Block Press,Infrastructure,LifeTrac,Solar Turbine,Water Well Drilling by Marcin
Sunday, June 15th, 2008
Down on the Farm: Wild Strawberries and Global Swadeshi
It has taken me a while to allow my experiences and inspirations from this weekend at Factor E to gestate, to ferment into tangible thoughts that I can easily disseminate to readers. Being lucky enough to sit down with Brittany and Marcin and talk face to face about what people are dealing with …
4 Comments » - Posted in Challenges,Collaborators,Global Swadeshi,Guests,Infrastructure,Open Source Technology,Permaculture,Visiting,Volunteers,Water Well Drilling by Richard Schulte
Thursday, June 5th, 2008
On Progress
Here is an overview of our overall program of action:
On the CEB Press for building – we are presently building the LifeTrac tractor – an agriculture, construction, and general utility device. This device is remarkably pedestrian in appearance – so one has to appreciate the details to grasp its versatility and lifetime design features. …
1 Comment » - Posted in Compressed Earth Block Press,Digital Fabrication,Global Swadeshi,Global Village Construction Set,Solar Turbine by Marcin
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Factor e Live
Change is continuous at Factor e Farm. You may have seen this post on how our place has evolved from a plain soybean field to rich diversity on many fronts.
To record these changes as they happen, we have begun the Factor e Live series. These are videos, aired every two weeks, that show the …
