Well, I've made some adjustments and pretty much finalized the main unit. I don't think I'm going to get to finishing the fruit bin part for a while now. My farm apples have been in the kitchen fridg, although not leaving much room for much else. I need to move on to a couple of other things. I want to expand my grow light shelves to accomodate more seed trays and I want to finish this in January. I also need to finish the insulation up in the attic. Because of this year's tax credit, I'm upping the R value up the attic. I tell you, in theory it's one of the easiest jobs to do, just put insulation in. But it's miserable - walking, crouching in all sorts of contorted positions, banging my head on the slanted roof with roofing nails sticking through, walking like a cat on the floor joists or across placed boards so as not to step wrong and land a foot through the ceiling below requiring drywall repair. I spend a couple hours up there and I come down feeling like I got hit by a truck!

After the grow light shelves I am going to build my own top bar beehive. I've decided to get bees for my mead. I'll post in the beekeeping thread on the construction, and my reasons for going for the less popular top bar beekeeping method.

Then after the beehive, I'm going to build a chicken coop once the snow clears in April. I've decided to take the plunge and get 3 hens. I have to make sure this is entirely predator proof.

Then after that I'm going to stop and relax and enjoy my summer and ride lots.

Here's the link to the complete root cellar process which gives a better explanation of things.

A couple of pictures:

Had to change out 2" pipe for 4". The 2" just wasn't sufficient and there was too much of a temperature differential. I couldn't get the root cellar down to temps I wanted. See above link for better explanation.



Intake pipe all the way to the floor to pull in cold air



Exhaust pipe on ceiling to remove warm air.



Final unit