We have been planning and fabricating in preparation for the snow to melt! We have been discussing with a local restaurant, grocery store and food preservation company the potentials of providing various produce items for them when the season begins. We have also began our garden planting plan, completed our orders for all seeds, plants and trees as well as some much-needed tools. In the case where some tools are expensive, yet simple to make, Eric has been making them himself. The greens spinner was recently completed as well as a broad fork. Next on the list is a gridder set and rolling bed flamer for our torch set up. We will save roughly $1,000 by making these items out of scrap metal versus buying them. In the case of making the broad fork, it also incidentally turned into a plasma cutting class for some of the auto shop students. Not only did they get a short course on how to use a plasma cutter, they were able to take part in cutting out some of the pieces for the tool as well as practice cutting their names into metal pieces. I think the students enjoyed the unique experience and it hopefully built their confidence in using (and making) a new tool.
Planning for spring
