Here in Tuscany is passing the storm "Ciaran" and the temperatures dropped: Today was time to turn on the new centralized wood burner! It can burn entire wood logs half a meter long.
This is the 30kW model called SH30 by the company ETA: https://www.eta.co.at/produkte/produktuebersicht/stueckholz/eta-sh-20-bis-60-kw/
Green energy!
Despite this is one of the nicest periods to do vacation here in Tuscany, we are heavily under booked.
We offer therefore a special deal:
Whoever quotes this toot, can book our room "Pipistrello" for only 30 Eur per night, or the apartment "Uccellino" for 60 Eur per night!
Book now: https://morgiano.it/Book.html
This offer is valid for June 2022 and it does not affect the cleaning fee.
rejoice, the days are growing again! 🌞
Although the #garden is now almost empty, today's lunch was entirely home-grown: salad, celery root, chard, lemon and even the olive oil. How satisfying!
In the afternoon and evening we will be back #hacking with a friend on two free software projects sponsored by #NLnet (https://nlnet.nl/).
Our guests have the garden at their disposal too, but now is not the best season for that.
Today we cleaned up the vegetable garden and planted field beans to enrich the soil with #nitrogen.
These beans, called "favini" in Italian, are sacrificial: Next spring, during flowering, the plants will be cut and left on the earth (#mulching). The roots, rich of nitrogen, will remain in the ground.
This is an old technique which has been used in this region to fertilize olive trees, but we will try it for tomatoes.
#permaculture
green #manure
We are a young couple of scientists who decided to live in a more sustainable way. We use the sun and firewood for heating, we grow our own vegetables without any chemicals following the permaculture philosophy, we are very attentive to respect your privacy (no trackers in our website), and we use only ethical digital platforms like OpenStreetMaps or Mastodon.
As part of our income, we rent rooms in this beautiful stone tower of the 14th century near Florence (Tuscany).