Personal. observations by G Fletcher and purchase information for mason bees and Phragmites tubes for their culture
Farm Improvements: Drainage.
This summer, our son Alex and his partner Virginie have taken a year off for their Wind-whipped Farm , “the Local Food Box Project,” to improve infrastructure for their farming business. This week it has been the excavation of their garden area for the installation of weeping tile for drainage. The purpose is to allow them to get on the land a month or two earlier in the spring. I took this set of photos to show the extent of the job. It gave us a great opportunity to have a “window into the underground”, and see what the glaciers left 10,000 years ago.
The main collector line starts near the road above the greenhouse.
Moisture around the greenhouse will be partly removed by this curtain drain trench.
Alex holding the rod for the laser level sensor.
Could call this one “what next?”
Depth sensor setup
Alex on machine- “The weekend shift”
Exposing and removing an old bottle dump, (probably 1940s) by the barn
Alex operating the Kubota backhoe
No glass-recycling back in those days
I used the Kyoti for several trenches as well
A foggu morning on Sunday
Two excavators at work.
One trench I exposed got into a bed of sand at a 1.5 metre depth,( piled on the left.)
Sand vein down in the trench.
This morning the slinger sends sand into the trench s to cover the drainage pipes.
