What a couple of days... That bloody van. Jeez. It has eaten another starter...
Wasted most of the day trying to figure that out and got a lot of grease all over me...
After lunch I just decided to give up on it and go mulch the pterocarps and albizzia's that I put in last week, using the mulch that I shredded yesterday, which was an accumulation of several months worth of goat fodder... While doing that, I drained Geoff's roof tanks onto the guadua hedge and decided to plant another one in one of the big holes we dug last month. I had put some cinders in last week when I borrowed Geoff's truck, and today there was some sand/compost blend left in the truck from the other day at malte's and when that came out with a mix of gliricida/pidgeon pea chips I realised that I had a good amount of material for the super hole for a bamboo. I added a bucket of goat poo's to the mixture too. I think it will do pretty well...

Okay, so putting the several months worth of prunings through the borrowed chipper, used perhaps a gallon of gas, and took about an hour and a half at least. So, it was quite a lot of labour all together, when you count all the trips to feed the goats. In the end we mulched about 5 trees with it. Bit of an anto climax. Sure would like to have one of those bigarse chippers that can grind 6 inch trunks up...

I also lately weedwacked the field above the barn, and today I raked it off... now that our thinking is more to make it a raised beds sort of market garden, instead of a cacao based food forest, I am thinking to move all the williams bananas out to the edges so that they serve as windbreak and don't well, get in the way...