Brightside Acres
West Virginia Wildgrown®

Fall 2011

Christmas Day

Doe & Fawn

Every Solar System's Gotta Have Back-up!

The starting point: all wires come up through an unfinished conduit that heads into the basement of the house where the house inverter and power system resides. Capping off the conduit and getting the wire over to the wall. The junction box where the power and signal wires join the conduit heading to the back wall of the shed. Junction box completed. The yellow wire will provide power inside the shed for lights and outlets. Conduit shown heading back and around. Conduit exits the shed back wall to the outside. The switch box. Switch box to transfer between main generator (shown) and a backup/portable option. The main 30 amp cord and two adapter cords for 20 amp and 15 amp outlets from all makes of portable generators. The complete generator set-up is shown. The automatic generator is to the left, the portable backup generator to the right. Backup generator shown using 15 amp outlet. Newly installed overhead florescent light fixtures. Outlets on every wall - 2 on left, 2 on right, 1 on rear. Shown are the 1 rear and 1 of the right wall outlets.

Works & Wonders

Spaghetti Squash. Gypsy Peppers. Peppers prepared for freezing. Grapes! Ripening tomatoes. Tomatoes cooking. Lemon Boy & Herb Marinara. Happy hens. October 3. October 3. Grandmother Apples. Apples cooking. Applesauce. October 18. Sweet Mama Squash. Sweet Mama Squash & Red Dragon Carrots, roasting. Tri-color sage. Garden sage. Lavender. Lavender. Parsley. October 25, Asian greens. October 25, chard & carrots. October 25, broccoli. Herb drying racks. Elderberries. Staghorn sumac. Scarlet Bee Balm. Goldenrod. Goldenrod. Milkweed seed pod. The last of the Heal All harvest. Stevia. October 29.