Mouth revolution y pulgarcitos

La moutholucion, the mouth revolution es un corto de free range studios que va a dejarlos boquiabiertos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nicOP2NLC0

Y pa curiosidades chequense estos pulgares, tres personas con estos dedos coincidieron en un mismo lugar, yo nunca me habia fijado que existen pulgares como estos

News from the Farm 3

Work in progress!!

This is our brand new taboon, soon we'll be able to bake pitta and pizza.



There is so much happening here lately that if I try to keep up with the changes and the new pictures I will never finish this post, so here it goes after several attempts.
Two big changes have taken place at Yeshmeain (the permaculture educational farm where I live): about 2 months a go we finally moved the kitchen outside, got the composting toilet and shower up and running and just moved there. Life takes place on that common area rather than inside the small house we used to gather at.

The second big change is that we have started building "the Center", a 200 square meter straw bale builing that will host all of our activities. Down here you can see the building; an old greenhouse frame with a new roof, used tyres filled with gravel are the foundations or "good shoes" where we hqve stqrted lying the straw bales that will soon be a wall. The good shoes also have stones and lime on the side. All of this will prevent moisture from reaching the straw and the mud plaster
Here you can see Gal and Merav digging the pool andh channel for out most recent grey water system and in the background the solar water heater that Ilai built.
This is how the garden looks now
After a great workshop on earth building with Tal Bashan we finished Ilai's walls and some shelves for the new indoor kitchen.

On the right you can see part of the 'good shoes', tyres stuffed with gravel.









The best hanging out spot is now under the mullberry tree








We hosted a lime plaster workshop, we made a pond for the Grey water system, lined the canal, did repairs on the composting toilet-shower building and finished the floor for Ilai's house.




We had a mud plaster workshop that was only the beggining of the full refurbishing of what was once the donkey's barn.



This is my own little place also known as 'La Choza Cachorra'; it keeps fresh at all times during the summer.


here's our new open kitchen

If u are around and want to give us a hand we will be very grateful, we still have a long way to go and need to finish the mud plaster before the rain comes.

Season's food

It's the first time in my life that my vegetable and fruit diet is based almost entirely on what's in season. When you go to the supermarket you can't really tell what's being grown now and what comes from greenhouses or is imported from all over the world.

I now know that in the summer you eat tomatoes (in this case until you get completely sick of them because we have plenty), cucumbers, zucchinis, ocra, beans, artichokes, corn, potatoes, green beans, prickly pears, figs, pears, watermelon...





There is something magical about waiting for the fruits to be ripe, and about being able to associate the seasons with the smell and taste of what's available at that particular time of the year.

cybertrauma

Today, after 3 weeks I got access to one of my e-mail accounts. One day I just couldn't sign in. I don't know what was more of a pain, the process of getting it back with customer services or to realize that in 3 weeks I got nothing exciting on my inbox .
In any case I recommend making sure that you are on the real web page every time you sign in, to remove any important information from your inbox and outbox (I freaked out because I realized I had details on my credit card there) and to make sure you know the answers to the security questions you set up when you opened the account...
So for those of you who know me as Tmelanie, you can contact me again, I'm back in.

The Story of Stuff

On a follow up of my last post where I spoke about the consumer culture and the incredible amount of waste we produce, here is the clearest, most concise well made clip that talks about this issue, check it out it's worth it.

http://www.storyofstuff.com/

Mugre ra! Basura ra! y Esmog ra ra ra!

El ecoloco habria estado orgulloso de las 4mil personas que disfrutaron de un evento en un parque de diversiones en Tel Aviv. Ayer trabaje muchas horas preparando pizzas para muchas personas que tienen una vision muy distinta de la mia en lo que a basura se refiere. Fue un evento para empleados, celebridades y colados de un canal de television. Habian puestos de comida y bebida y juegos mecanicos, todo gratis. Cada puesto de comida regalaba productos con envoltura, en platos desechables o botellas (donde yo estuve solo cartones y servilletas, al menos..). El poco tiempo que tuve para dar la vuelta y observar fue suficiente para entristecerme, la basura se desbordaba fuera de los botes, la gente estaba sentada rodeada de basura en el piso y todo parecia muy natural. En el puesto de pizzas estuvimos como locos tratando de satisfacer las demandas de gente a la que no le falta nada, pero esta lista para quejarse porque tiene que esperar 3 minutos a que salga la pizza del horno o porque no tiene exactamente los ingredientes que quieren. Tambien tuvimos que limpiar constantemente la basura que dejaban en nuestro puesto, botellas de las que tomaron solo un traguito, servilletas, plastico, todo porque no pudieron caminar 10 pasos al bote de basura mas cercano y tirarlo ahi.

Donde vivo reusamos o reciclamos casi todos los materiales que pasan por aqui, hacemos composta de los restos de comida (o se lo damos a las gallinas), y solo lo que de plano esta en un estado deplorable y apestoso se va a la basura.

En contraste, hoy como cada ultimo sabado del mes organizamos un 'mercado'(shuk en hebreo) en el que la gente trae lo que ya no quiere y puede llevarse cosas que otra gente trajo. Lo que para uno es basura para otro es util. El shuk nos muestra una y otra vez la abundancia a nuestro alrededor, llegan miles de cosas, le gente sale con bolsas llenas y aun asi siempre sobrea al final para donar o reusar. Cuando necesitamos algo especifico lo pedimos (al universo..) y muchas veces ha llegado con el shuk. Desde un cable, cera, utensilios, mapas, libros.

Vivimos en una epoca de escasez, escasez que nosotros mismos hemos creado porque en realidad lo que nos rodea es abundancia pero muchas veces no logramos verla porque estamos corriendo para ganar mas dinero para comprar mas cosas.

No espero que todos vivan como yo pero si puedo influenciar el sentido de abundancia y los patrones de consumo de unas cuantas personas estare satisfecha.

Fijaciones

Hay jardineros que tienen tendencias bien definidas...