by boomer | Dec 30, 2014 | Bees, Featured
Last year I attended an amazing Bee Keeping class that was taught by Les Crowder. Les is as close to an expert on Topbar beekeeping as you can find these days. He has managed to make the slippery transition into commercial bee keeping while still practicing the top...
by boomer | Oct 17, 2014 | Featured, Shipping Container Homes
Every 3 months or so I head to a cave in Tennessee called Worley’s. A few years back I noticed an interesting shipping container project that was being built around Bluff City Tennessee. I’m sorry that I don’t have more details about the builder, or...
by boomer | Mar 21, 2014 | Featured, Shipping Container Homes
Hot off the press and sharper than ever is our newest Shipping Container Home Design from Big Boom Design. This design is a re-issue of a previous design named C-Section. This design went somewhat viral in 2011 when I first posted it to this blog. The new version has...
by boomer | Feb 11, 2014 | Arduino, Chickens, Featured
I’ve selected a container for the incubator that should serve as a nice insulated box and viewing window. The goal with the first incubator is to focus primarily on the function and much less on the form that it takes. I’d like to keep my cost on this...
by boomer | Jan 11, 2014 | Arduino, Chickens
A Little Bit of Background I’ve recently learned about an Open Source software/hardware project named Arduino. It’s basically a programmable mini computer that lets you create an “if-then” system. If the project that I’m getting...