Days12 & 13

Ageya Wilderness Center 

Permaculture Design Course

Rico Zook/Cindee Karns, instructors

Downright boring to be a teacher now.  The design groups are going hot and heavy; fast and furious.  Tomorrow is the big day and party.  We've invited all sorts of people to come and hear the presentations.  The clients, owners/caretakers of Ageya will be here by SKYPE, while former students as well as those who have been so gracious by touring us around Homer, will be in attendance.  

Shower House Team

Here's what I've captured so far of the designs.  One is a shower house for the camp and the other is a modern Alaskan homestead meant to be an example for village kids to take back with them.

Bridget the writer----Shower House Team

Shower House design:  this is going to be awesome!

Modern Homestead Group

The Alaska Modern Homestead Team

Working hard!

Even Rico is designing!  It's going to be the coolest (very warm) high tunnel in all of Homer!

Day 11 

Ageya Wilderness Center 

Rico Zook/Cindee Karns, instructors

Permaculture Design Course

Today we were all dragging.  You can tell by the amount of photos I took.  We took a break after lunch to dig up our IMOs we buried last week.  We had 4 different bowls of food and put them in 2 different places.  The bowl of rice and the bowl of quinoa were buried close to the lodge.  The rice and banana bowl and the rice and quinoa bowl were buried out in the farm area.  The thought was that maybe there were more microorganisms over there.  Truth be told, there wasn't enough sun.  

So you can try this too, you bury a full bowl of rice for a week.  Cover it with another bowl the same size so that air can get in.  Be careful to not let the dirt get in, however.  

When you open it, there should be colorful bacterias on the rice.  Dump that rice in a PLASTIC or GLASS bowl and then add 2 cups of molasses.  

Stir it up well.  Cover the bowl with newspaper and put it in a warm dark place in your house.  Wait.  

We chose the rice without the fruit---it had lots more bacteria. 

This smells just like breakfast---fresh and edible after being buried in the cool Alaskan soil!

This is what we have sitting behind the stove.....waiting......waiting........

Tune in for the exciting conclusion of INDIGENOUS MICROORGANISMS and how to use them!