Building Unity Farm Sanctuary - 4th week of May 2017

Spring ’s warmth and rain is accelerating our plant and mushroom growth such that every day is a balance between agricultural management and sanctuary development activities like trail building as pictured below.  The stone bridge you see was built in the early 1800 ' s.The adventuresome project of last weekend was replacing the 20 year old heating oil tanks in the Sanctuary.  The seams were weeping and oil was accumulating on the sides of the tanks.  I recently heard a nightmarish story about an oil delivery of 500 gallons into a 250 gallon tank that had a newly ruptured seam.  With new tanks, we ’ve avoided that risk.  The challenge is that the sanctuary has no basement - just a 4 foot crawl space.  To extract the old oil tanks we had to remove the staircase in the crawl space and lift the tanks to the first floor without spilling old oil or scratching the wood floors.  Not fun, but we were successful.The other not fun project was replacing all the fiberglass insulation in the crawl space.  In the past, the roof gutters directed water immediately down the side of the building and into the basement causing annual flooding and mold.  We ’ve redone the gutters to direct all water away from the foundation. The crawl space has stayed completely dry this spring.  I pulled 200 linear feet of fiberglass insulation out from the crawlspace, bagging it to avoid dragging mold, mouse droppings and fiberglass thr...
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