We got a lot done on our outhouse project this past Saturday! The materials on the left in the photo above were all donated to us by Bill Campbell, who teaches construction and engineering classes at the Saline High School. These were some leftover materials from his classes that were going to be discarded, but he snagged them for us instead!The base of the outhouse finished. It's bigger than it looks in the photo. The finished base with floor... ...
In my last post, I talked about the construction plans for the Sanctuary. I want to make clear that this is part of a larger plan that allows for many wild spaces, much of which will not be touched by the construction at all. The area where we are creating the pond, along with the future building site and food forest, includes about five acres. It was all a cultivated farm field with very degraded and compacted ...
Though the pond is still under construction, it's already beautiful and teeming with life. (Be sure to watch through to the end to see who's making the chirping noises in the video.) And the recent rains have added enough water to be able to have a good sense of what it will look like when it's complete. https://youtube.com/shorts/MR0PB1G9tP8?feature=share The site plan for the pond area is to have a small campground on one side ...
Continuing the theme of water, it's exciting to see that the "pond" is starting to ice over. Although it's still only the beginnings of the pond that we have planned, it's already a fairly significant body of water nevertheless. And it makes it really easy to envision what it will be like when it's finished. Pond Construction 2020 This week we had the survey done that was required by EGLE for us to ...