Comments on: Party Planning

by: Jason

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Huh - wonder if anyone ever looks at comment pages this far back. Anyhow, now that I’ve seen the farm, I find myself curious as to which landscape features the man with the Tonka toys was involved with creating. Perhaps someone with such knowledge might wander back this far in the ‘log to help inform me?

by: eric

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

The area where the bulk of the party was held (in and around the shop) was a mess of burned car parts, scrap metal, glass, and other trash. There were tires, burned-open auto batteries, melted fiberglass panels. Some corners of the shop were piled nearly to the ceiling.

Also, up near the house was a collection of “burn barrels”, rusted through and spilling their contents of melted plastic, cans, and bottles.

And, he smoothed out the drive down the hill to the shop.

What would have taken Chris and I weeks by ourselves was done in a few hours by the man and his Tonka toys.

by: Jason

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Hey, someone DID look way back at these old comment pages — and just the feller I was hoping for! I’m very impressed by the Tonka Toy Guy’s efficiency: that area looked nothing at all like the wasteland it must have been only days earlier.

I know you’re working toward a fully organic farm - will you have to do soil tests and soforth to ensure that no residues of your farm’s former life have left chemical traces? I know nothing about the stardards for certification, but it struck me that could be a challenge you might be facing.

I’m rather taken with the idea of taking a wastepit and rehabilitating it as an organic farm.