I had the weekend off from the green roofing job, so I got some much needed work done in the garden with the help of some good friends. Thomas Florian and his girlfriend Emily came out and assisted the planting of 15 blueberry bushes, 30 comfrey crowns, and 20 various perennial herbs. We also spread two loads of leaves to help with mulching the new plantings. They were a great help, in light of my shoulder injury, and I only hope they enjoyed getting their hands dirty. The other picture is of my latest batch of soap. I used 100% peanut oil for this batch that I salvaged from vegetable oil containers (unused of course) to help keep costs down. Some google searches showed that peanut oil has great moisturizing properties, so after another two weeks of curing in the racks I will be sending out samples for feedback! Off to Florence for the week to finish planting the rest of the roof. Will post pictures of the green roof soon.
Feel free to send a sample to Germany..although I guess that wouldn't be the best carbon footprint! Maybe I will have to give it a go myself ;)
ReplyDeleteps- glad you are feeling better. sending you lots of good energy!