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Thank you CAN Cooperative‘s Kirk Fuller for this incredible video about the Grange Farm School. Share it with your friends, acquaintances, fellows, companions, cooperatives, networks… everyone!
Suck, squeeze, bang, and blow: the four steps required to power a 4-stroke engine. Mike Ott of the Mendocino Alcohol Fuel Group uses this moniker to make the mysteries of internal combustion engines easier to visualize. Intake, compression, combustion, and exhaust is the way Takashi Yogi, our resident Industrial Arts master, would teach it. Having…
Update From The Field: James Edmondson (SAA Alumnus) We love our alumni. It is deeply encouraging to learn how our students have gone on to apply the skills they’ve learned here in fruitful ways. We wanted to share with you this note that James Edmondson sent our way… “I experienced Winter for the first time…
Hi, my name’s James. James Edmondson. I was born in LA but thankfully moved up north to spend my childhood in Santa Rosa; a tantalizing compromise of progressive thinking and pseudo-city living. There I remained until January 2015 when a blooming interest in regenerative living brought me a few hours north to the fertile lands…
Tuesday March 8, 2016 My soil test is in the mail but I’ve already spent time with the clay loam, by hand and satellite imaging. There is a rocky swirl across the field in the likeness of a yang or a ying. I took two tests, one from the wide, circular part of the…
Summer term was winding down. With under a month to go, students were finding their stride, choosing their areas of focus, taking on responsibility at the farm, and reaching out to potential employers. The weekend was coming to an end, and students who had gone away for the weekend were filtering back in Sunday night,…
On frequent mornings fair, whilst whistle the waking winged denizens of sun-ready oaks and peeping boppish bays, midst a modal mist whose soaking tones warrant no woe, there jets aloft a golden burst pure and untamed (nor yet famed), an amendment upon the rooster’s ancient decree of Day Come Once More which summons the Grange…
