Viva Verde

Viva Verde
Originally uploaded by mikeysklar

We just returned from a two night trip to Silver City. I was a speaker at the Viva Verde event on the topic of "Digital Homesteading". Pretty much the same talk I gave at the Albuquerque dorkbot meeting earlier this year. All the talks I attended were quite good. I enjoyed learning about native foods, drought issues in the southwest, animal husbandry, SIPs as a building material, and issues around biofuels. We were a bit worried about the garden not getting watered while we were away. No problem there. When we came home I noticed that we have around 600 gallons of rain water in the tanks. There must have been some serious storms for the last three days because there is water everywhere.