Bio Alexandra grew up in Forrestville, CA. Went to school in Colorado, and graduated from San Francisco U. She’s a beautiful, amazing, super-cool individual. -Scott Questions for Alex: What excites you the most about Moosicorn? Working myself ragged for myself (us), not someone else (employer). When will Moosicorn be finished do you think? Never. But [...]
These two are tied together for us, because we are going to install our solar panels over our septic drain field. We’re doing this for a few reasons… we’ll be able to clear less forest, we’ll have our solar panels down where we can work on them easily, and it will keep us from running [...]
Drilling the well was one of those things we really couldn’t handle ourselves, so after choosing our well location we hired a well company to drill for us. Originally they drilled past the aquifer by about 120′ and we got really nervous that our budget and dream wasn’t going to come to fruition. But after [...]
There are approximately 1600 feet of road from the street to the Barn/House. We needed to build-up approximately 1200 feet of this road a good 4 inches before construction began. We were lucky enough to have a very helpful neighbor with a 12′ road grader, his own gravel pit, and a buddy with a truck. [...]
Eventually we would like for Moosicorn to produce 80%+ of its own power through solar and wind technologies. We will use a net metering system and build these into the infrastructure later on in the experiment. In the meantime, we had to run power the old fashioned way. To save some costs and minimize the [...]
The building of the shed was a fun process. What started off as a temporary bit of storage, quickly evolved into a full scale project. We began the shed on June 20th 2008, and got the framing completed that weekend. We finished sheeting it the following weekend. The rest of the details are a bit [...]
