Michael has been staying in the house while on summer break from Prescott College.  He in a seriously action-oriented guy who has stellar scavenging and welding skills to boot!  He has combined all three to create an amazing shelter for our bicycles.  We love our bikes. And we love Michael for building this to protect them.  Check out what he built!

It was built on a slight slant so that the rain water runs to one side, into a gutter, then into our forest garden.

I think that this project cost $46 total in materials. We paid a friend $30 for the corrugated metal for the roof, and I think that Michael got one a metal fence piece (which he turned into a bike rack) from a scrap yard for $16.  Not bad!!

Not only is this shelter directing water to our forest garden (see photo caption), we hope to grow vines up one side and perhaps onto the rooftop.  We are planning on planting hops on the eastern side where we attached some scavenged metal to act as a trellis.  Can anyone smell some homebrew posts in our future??

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Okay. We admit it. We have A LOT of bikes.  It’s awesome.

Adam led a permaculture workshop here a few weekends ago and many of the attendees were taken aback by the quantity of bicycles in our backyard.  Repeatedly, they asked “How many people live here again?!?”  “Are those all your bikes???”  One man exclaimed about six times over the course of the afternoon, “Those suurrrrre are a lot of bikes! A lot of bikes!”  Clearly, these people have never lived with two bike mechanixxx in a warehouse.  Or seen a party after an alleycat race.  Now THAT’S a lot of bikes.