

Passive Agriculture
Act without doing; work without effort; Think of the small as large; and the few as many... Passive solar energy is an example of a well understood concept. Instead of heating your house 100% with fossil fuel based power like electric or gas, or even solar panels, we first intelligently design or adapt our houses to mitigate and maximize the sun's potential. Simply by design, one can enhance comfortable living quarters utilizing the perennial, open source sun at less expense


Florida face lift
We are now winding down our trip on the East coast of Florida and loafing around by the beach in the oak hammocks near St Augustine. Oak hammocks are the native forests of which live oak is the predominant species. Also mixed in are hickories. On our walk to a spectacular old growth oak hammock we walked through stands of plantation long leaf pine. Apparently, the U.S Forest Circus cut down vast tracks of native hammock here and replaced them with rows of single species pine