Tag: community work
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Community Work Day to Install a Thatched Roof
The roof is finally in place, a year and a half after two hurricanes destroyed the original roof on the north side. We headed up Thursday evening with Jakob and Hans, and on Friday we prototyped and tested a sled to haul the turf until we found something that worked well: wheels attached to half a Euro pallet with side-stabilizing wheels turned out to be the perfect solution. We used it to haul up a pallet of ground panels to be placed underneath the insulation, before three more friends arrived on Saturday to tackle the big job of hauling up 180 bags of peat and spreading it out. Once we got started, we were done in just 4 hours! I’m waiting to sow the seeds until I come up in July and can oversee the watering, but I did test that the concept of using a pump with water connections to a regular garden hose worked.
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