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Pathways – Renovation and Restoration
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A Chronicle of the efforts to care for Green Gulch Farm and its many inhabitants. September 5, 2014. September 4, 2014. There has been a lot of work in the past few weeks on the pathways leading to Cloud Hall and the basement. They are not, as of yet, completed. We are waiting on the architect-specified binding agent for the pathway surface – it does not contain nasty chemicals that might wash into the creek (the sub-contractor had originally ordered a different product). We are all enjoying its serpenti...
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Channel Construction Begins – Renovation and Restoration
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A Chronicle of the efforts to care for Green Gulch Farm and its many inhabitants. September 25, 2014. September 30, 2014. This is what the sixth field looked like from Highway One a couple of weeks ago:. Closer up, the field was a rainbow of these colorful wooden markers, indicating start and finish grade at various points:. I learned that the crew leaves the markers in place, on little islands of soil, until the final grade is confirmed to be according to plan (then the little islands are knocked over):.
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A Creek Is Born – Renovation and Restoration
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A Chronicle of the efforts to care for Green Gulch Farm and its many inhabitants. A Creek Is Born. December 30, 2014. Since the last post about the creek, construction has ended and the creek is flowing! Piles of organic vineyard mulch from Sonoma, waiting to be put down on top of the native seed, for erosion control and to aid revegetation:. Jute being put down on the floodplains and edges of the creek to prevent heavy rains from washing away seed, soil, and eroding the creek bed:. First, you harvest LO...
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Basement Stucco – Renovation and Restoration
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A Chronicle of the efforts to care for Green Gulch Farm and its many inhabitants. September 18, 2014. The exterior of the basement is almost complete. As with the rest of Cloud Hall, there are many layers under the one we will all see…. You may recall that they demolished the walls of the basement, and re-framed them, back in April (this photo taken from inside the basement, looking toward the dining room):. Then the whole building got a plywood layer, and a vapor barrier:. Watershed Work Party Invite.
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Cloud Hall: Finish Line in Sight! – Renovation and Restoration
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A Chronicle of the efforts to care for Green Gulch Farm and its many inhabitants. Cloud Hall: Finish Line in Sight! December 31, 2014. December 30, 2014. It is hard to believe that construction will soon be over. The construction crew has been hard at work over the past couple of months finishing the new building and site work. The exterior of Cloud Hall, including the basement stucco, has been finished for some time, and looks beautiful:. The student rooms are trimmed out:. There is one spot in the road...
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September and October Construction – Renovation and Restoration
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A Chronicle of the efforts to care for Green Gulch Farm and its many inhabitants. September and October Construction. October 24, 2014. October 24, 2014. A LOT of work has been done in the last couple of months on the new building, now named Still Water Hall, as well as finishing touches on other parts of Cloud Hall. This is the view from the pathway that leads from the inner parking lot to the tea house (and old office). The covered landing will eventually have stairs leading up to it:. The radiant floo...
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Large Woody Debris – Renovation and Restoration
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A Chronicle of the efforts to care for Green Gulch Farm and its many inhabitants. October 9, 2014. October 9, 2014. One thing juvenile fish apparently LOVE is LWD: large woody debris. From the King County government website:. Large woody debris refers to the fallen trees, logs and stumps, root wads, and piles of branches along the edges of streams, rivers, lakes, [and other shorelines]. Some key benefits of large woody debris to fish and other aquatic creatures:. Because we would like to stabilize the si...
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stashker – Renovation and Restoration
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A Chronicle of the efforts to care for Green Gulch Farm and its many inhabitants. Bell Tower Site and Platform. October 25, 2016. October 25, 2016. Work on the platform design and placement of the new Bell Tower began in earnest in the spring of 2015. There were several considerations that went into the placement of the Bell Tower. The first was the relationship to the current structures – the Zendo, most importantly, and also the Tea House, Still Water Hall, and other outbuildings. When asked about the ...
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Large Woody Debris – Renovation and Restoration
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A Chronicle of the efforts to care for Green Gulch Farm and its many inhabitants. October 9, 2014. October 9, 2014. One thing juvenile fish apparently LOVE is LWD: large woody debris. From the King County government website:. Large woody debris refers to the fallen trees, logs and stumps, root wads, and piles of branches along the edges of streams, rivers, lakes, [and other shorelines]. Some key benefits of large woody debris to fish and other aquatic creatures:. Because we would like to stabilize the si...
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Atop the Guest House – Renovation and Restoration
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A Chronicle of the efforts to care for Green Gulch Farm and its many inhabitants. Atop the Guest House. September 7, 2014. September 4, 2014. The following was published in Sangha News Weekly, the San Francisco Zen Center’s online newsletter, about the Guest House roof project completed earlier this summer (see other posts about the roof under “other projects” on this blog). Laying a Roof and Raising Consciousness: An Interview with Contractor Ezra Wynn on Being Atop the Guest House. Under the beautiful ...
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