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Trevor and Forest are so great. They designed and built an incredible table for the terraza, where we eat lunch and dinner as a community. It is HEAVY, super sturdy, strong enough to dance on, and will last a hundred years. Below, Forest on the left and Trevor on the right. They are putting together […] MaryFer is one of the resident volunteers here. She has been living at the Bosque since June, and plans to stay until November. One of her interests is improving her video capturing and editing skills, and in the past couple of months she has been filming and editing in order to show interested people what […] One of our greatest satisfactions is that we attract people from all over the world. We recently added our past visitors into google maps for fun! Our visitor and volunteer map: (be patient – it may take awhile to load) View Bosque Visitors in a larger map (If you can’t find yourself here and you’ve […] Last April we began digging our first swale – “The Great Upper Swale” – along the contour of the hillside on the upper part of the Bosque.
Making swales is a popular permaculture practice for rainwater harvesting. Swales are essentially long ditches dug on along a level line of a hillside. When […] The craze of the swine flu has died down considerably. When we go to town we no longer see people wearing the masks or taking special precautions. The flu gave us a chance to think about what we would do in a pandemic situation; it was an interesting exercise. Would we cut ourselves off and […] |