Piedmont Biofuels Workday Bill and I went out to Piedmont Biofuels last Sunday for a workday. It was time to harvest the Brassica (rapeseed and mustard), and as always a bunch of other stuff was going on (such as plastering the straw bale building) and ideas and fun were flying. Normally I wind up getting into some argument over economics or politics, but this time was very mellow. Here's me with Bill (thanks to John Bonitz for the pic)

and the product of our labor. We got there just as the last microplot was beign harvested, helped with that, then took part in the threshing, screening, and weighing of the seeds.



Here's some very crude vids (from my Cannon) of the threshing activity:



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Don't know if we didn't work hard enough or if working in a cool cooperative venture involving agriculture, fuel, and mud energized us, but when we got home Bill repared the mower, mowed, and did a bunch of gardening chores while I puttered in the house and did some weeding/cultivating in the garden. We probably got more done that evenign at home than we would have on many more low-key Sundays.  ¶ 2:09 AM