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May 20, 2020

Test drive with the wrong plough

Wrong plough!

This plough is obviously not made for breaking new ground. It is probably best for working soil that has already been worked up a bit.

So all I can do here is be patient and wait for the next plough.

The red Jansen two-wheel tractor with the plough attached, standing on freshly worked soil next to a wooden shed

Not very effective at breaking new land!

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May 14, 2020

Jansen@Heggli

A story like no other about a little red tractor.

Then the day was here, almost like May Day.

The two-wheel tractor has finally arrived, and it went almost like clockwork.

The red Jansen two-wheel tractor still wrapped in plastic inside its wooden shipping crate

The first challenge, after unpacking it and finding out I had been sent the wrong plough, was getting it to start.

That turned out to be difficult. After a while with a bit of swearing, and with help from a friend, it finally started. The problem turned out to be that the fuel tap had been left open during transport. That had left the engine full of petrol. After unscrewing the spark plug and standing there staring at the tractor for about thirty minutes, I tried starting the engine with a dry plug! It started on the first try, to the great relief of young and old.

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April 28, 2020

Microscale@Heggli

Growing vegetables at Heggli

After seeing and hearing about the concept of a market garden farm, we were inspired to try it on a small scale here at Heggli. We are giving it a go on an area of about 10x10 metres.

The most important thing we based the size and location of the beds on is that they should be easy to scale up and have good drainage.

The number 10 was chosen because it makes it easy to calculate how much seed and fertiliser we need. It is also easier if you want to scale up the production.

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April 14, 2020

A short Hugo how-to

Install Hugo

snap install hugo --channel=extended

Create a new website

hugo new site evilDevOps

Add a new post/article

hugo new post/helloWorld.md

Start test server

hugo server -D

Add a new theme

git submodule add https://github.com/budparr/gohugo-theme-ananke.git themes/ananke

Add a repo as a submodule and set it to follow master.

Only needed if you haven’t configured .gitmodules

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