Monday, April 8, 2013

Same Old Stuff, New Coast




We have about 15 hives here at the Lyle Center


Jim harvesting dragon fruit/pitaya, my first job here in SoCal


Dragon fruit flower with a very happy bee


Amonix solar panels


The foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, right next to Mt. Baldy


I'm up to my same ol' stone wall tricks, but this time with broken up concrete


I'm used to field stones and river rocks--it's much easier when there's a flat edge!


Broccoli, lettuce, mizuna, tat soi, etc. in my little concrete raised bed

a few weeks later





















The TJ house, or Tijuana House, is a prototype for the hillside barrios surrounding Tijuana built with pallets, paper-based concrete, a green roof, solar panels, and other low-tech green techniques



This one was pretty heavy






That one's not going anywhere!








A group of community gardeners checking out the Aquaponics project using tilapia