The Cheng’s Architecture and Real Estate Foundation

Our mission is to build affordable, safe and sustainable housing for everyone.

I remember the time when I had my first architecture class; the professor told me that architects only serve 10 percent of the population in the world. I was shocked at that time. However, I think a designer can help more people through their professional skills.  As an architect, what we do is integrate the design and development into building construction. We literally can engage every aspect of the building development. For example, the material, structure, spaces, VAC, Piping. The building is one of a fundamental part of this world, which influences almost everyone’s life.

Our first goal is to provide affordable housing for people who in need. The primary purpose for this is to reduce the construction and developing cost through architect’s role. For example, in our design process, we can choose cheaper and abundant material for construction, which will significantly reduce the price for people who are willing to buy the property. Another way of doing this is to design the economic space for the building. For example, we can create relatively tight space to reduce the price for each unit while developer still achieves their profit purpose. Moreover, we can create a campaign for people who want to help others through their professional skills, the architect can design the building; engineers can construct, a business person can be financial and market. By doing this, less cost in developing and construction also means cheaper housing for people.

Another goal for Cheng’s foundation is to provide a safe building for people. I joined a group in earthquake rescue mission when I was in high school. I experienced the tragedy of disaster. Here is the fact, in most disasters, the unsafe building is killer! However, there are lots of dangerous buildings around the world, especially in developing countries. The one thing for us is to design a building with active, aware and knowledge of building regulation and provide engineering experience in seismic awareness. Another one is monitoring the construction process on whether the works are done in a proper way.

The last goal is to design sustainable housing. Building conserves lots of energy and natural resources. Through active sustainable design, the building can save tons of energy by reducing the use of water and electricity. For example, double façade wall can reduce the utilization of the heater, natural ventilation can reduce the usage of the heater, and natural lights can lessen the use of lightbulb. All above aspect can substantially increase buildings energy performance and conserve energy. In this parts, architect also can place their design role from the building into modifying the infrastructure for clean water and sufficient electricity

Architecture on Making the World Better Place

After reading the “Blue Sweater,” I am moved by the action the author take in Africa to make the world a better place. She used his banking skills to help poor people to get a loan from the bank, which helps them build up their business and take care of their family. As an architecture student, I think I also can do something like helping people to build and design an affordable house. Through my skills, I can design community or condominium which can satisfy the need of the people and reduce the developing cost. Providing the house for poor people will greatly change their life. If they have a home, they will have better life quality. Saving on housing means they will have extra money for food and education. As the world with kids has enough food and affordable education is a better world.

Through architecture, we are not only can provide housing for people in need, but we also can provide clean water and electricity for the people if we carefully integrate the design with utility infrastructure. A better design will also provide them better community space for gathering and social, therefore with the help of architecture, it really can make the world a better place.

Connection behind the Artwork

Background

The Exhibition of “The Art of Our Time” is assembled by Chief Curator of MOCA Grand Avenue, Hellen Molesworth. From the title “The Art of Our Time”, we can know that the exhibition will talk about the Contemporary Art. The Contemporary Art is diverse. Therefore, it is hard for the curator to create a single theme for various art pieces. However, Hellen is trying to install the exhibition with the connection between the artwork and the artists. In the Official Website of MOCA, it says that the exhibition is a representation of the link between the artists and artwork.[1] The exhibition is carefully divided into two parts based on its topic. One of them is a connection between movements, such as abstract expressionism, pop art, conceptual art, and feminism. Another one is a connection of ideas, such as sharing, caring and reflecting, which is not the following the trend or movement. From a review by William Poundstone, the MOCA exhibition is based on time and theme. [2] From the MOCA, the link behind the artwork is based on friendships, history of art school and artists’ personal interests.[3] Through series painting, sculpture, and photography, the show expresses the topic of “Connections”.

Connection of Ideas

The first part of the show is ideas in connection. The ideas are main reinterpreted in three different ways. One is the School of Black Mountain, which contains various experimentation on ideas between the Modernism the Postmodernism. Through my experience of the walking in the gallery, the work in this connection is pretty dramatic and different from each other. For example, the Josef Albers’s work is trying to explore the idea of the perception through the color and proportion. It also leaves the room for the viewer to explore the ideas of how to understand the purpose of the work. They also have ideas of abstract expressionism, minimalism, contrast, and topology and so on.  Another type of this gallery is an assemblage, which the artist use their interest to combine painting, wood, canvas and another kind of the art media into a single piece of the art. In the connection in this room, the emphasis is also on the how to make an artwork. Some people use different holding to free their hand; some people use a different mix of the material; some of the people is using various media to express their art purpose.

Connection of Movement

From the previous part, the curator gives a glimpse of beginning of contemporary art, which is prosperous with no single style. Gradually, he moves to the time; the art started to involve into special style for a certain period.  The contemporary begun to form its connection of the movement.

The theme of connection with movement is based on abstract expressionism, pop art, conceptual art. Each category has their section of the display, which is very helpful for viewers to compare and contrast the artwork. It also made the understanding of the art easier.

Conclusion

 From my perspective, the installation of artwork reflecting the idea of connection inside of the work. The chronological order of the work is also helping people to understand the work. The two wings clearly reflect the link between the movement and ideas, which is a strong theme of the whole exhibition. However, the chronological order sometimes risks the mood of the exhibition or a certain section of space. In some parts, the gallery space and artwork should correspond to each other. For example, putting some intense artwork mixed with cool work together will disrupt the mood of the room, which is happening in the new installation. At the end of the gallery, the theme of conceptual art is reflecting this kind of problem. Another risk the curator may face works combination. In an artistic review by Catherine Wagley, she states the problem that may exist in the show is “the certain work does not fit together.”[4] However, the MOCA has many arts with different styles. It is hard for people to work together. Wagley also states that Hellen may misplace some new artwork in the exhibition, like the style of “greatest hits” in the first room. [5]

Bibliography

Molesworth, Helen. "The Art of Our Time." The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Accessed February 19, 2016. http://www.moca.org/exhibition/the-art-of-our-time.

Poundstone, William. "“The Art of Our Time” at MOCA | Los Angeles County Museum on Fire / William Poundstone | BLOUIN ARTINFO Blogs." Los Angeles County Museum on Fire William Poundstone. September 21, 2015. Accessed February 19, 2016. http://blogs.artinfo.com/lacmonfire/2015/09/21/the-art-of-our-time-at-moca/.

  Wagley Catherine. "Helen Molesworth Upends the Permanent Hang at MOCA LA - Momus." Momus. October 26, 2015. Accessed February 19, 2016. http://momus.ca/helen-molesworth-upends-the-permanent-hang-at-moca-la/.

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[1] Molesworth, Helen. "The Art of Our Time." The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Accessed February 19, 2016. http://www.moca.org/exhibition/the-art-of-our-time.

[2] Poundstone, William. "“The Art of Our Time” at MOCA | Los Angeles County Museum on Fire / William Poundstone | BLOUIN ARTINFO Blogs." Los Angeles County Museum on Fire William Poundstone. September 21, 2015. Accessed February 19, 2016. http://blogs.artinfo.com/lacmonfire/2015/09/21/the-art-of-our-time-at-moca/.

[3] Molesworth, Helen. "The Art of Our Time." The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Accessed February 19, 2016. http://www.moca.org/exhibition/the-art-of-our-time.

[4] Wagley Catherine. "Helen Molesworth Upends the Permanent Hang at MOCA LA - Momus." Momus. October 26, 2015. Accessed February 19, 2016. http://momus.ca/helen-molesworth-upends-the-permanent-hang-at-moca-la/.

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Money Book Post Three, The Interview with Wangari Muta Maathai

The interview with Wangari Muta Maathai is fascinating. I like the idea of green belt movement. It remembers me a quote from Chinese. Teaching other how to fish is better than giving them fish. The way Mr. Maathai is a testimony of this idea of teaching. What he did is very useful for people in Kenya rather than just giving them food and aid.

It is hard for me to understand how to connect the environmental problem with civil and world peace at first. From this interview, I actually learned lots from her. Protecting the environment for sustainable development is essential. Moreover, sustainability will change how people are living by providing them jobs and food. When people’s life are secured with food and job, the conflict will be minimalized, which means maybe the war will be over. There is several sense of war. One is a war for countries regard of national interest, which some natural interests are natural resources. One is the war for the right, which she leads woman work together and create a better world. Another one is a war for poverty, which is how their movement brings people economic benefit. The last one is a war against the environmental problem.

It is an idea of a triple bottom line: economy, society, and the environment. From my perspective, I think the ultimate result for the triple bottom line is harmony, which people with people, country with country, and human with natural and so on. The harmony can serve the fundamental force for civil rights, world peace. 

Money Book Post 2 Chapter 3

This chapter is talking about people and countries are willing to sacrifice of human and natural resources in order to generate money because they think money represent wealth. However, they did not recognize except money; there are something else can be made into wealth such as water. We need to increase our awareness of the injustice and corruption of current money system which has over-consumption and over-production. Not only money can improve our life quality but also growing food, making clothes, and educating children can make people wealth which most of the people ignore. Therefore, money is not the most important part of our life, and we should care more about the human and natural resources.

The money is a double side sword, which brings benefit to people and it also harms individuals in the other way. The edge of the sword depends on how people distribute and manage the money. The traditional economic system is using money as account for values and acts as a way of exchanging product and services. At first, the conventional system seems works. When we dig deeper into this system, we can found out in order to achieve the flow and position of money; people use greed way to achieve the values without concerns of society and environments. The system brings fortune to some people. In the same time, the majority of people are in debt or losing it because they control the way how the money flows and represents. The center of this system is debts and interests. The relationship between the lender and borrower seems to make the economy prosperous. Later on, the system seems lost its value since rich people are defining the economic life; and people started aware of the injustice of this system. In order to avoid corruption and injustice, people began to use fair trade and new economy system through complementary currency. Lastly, the most efficient way to solve the current economic system is that people need to know the capacity of money can do and what they can do to create social finance system towards the just economy. 

Money Book Review Chapter 3

This section mainly takes about the value of money. It is very hard for me to read. One of the reasons is the vocabulary very complicated; another reasons is the lack of knowledge of cohesive meaning throughout the writing. Fortunately, I understand it after lots of attempts. There are two values of the money. One is gold-backed currency, which uses gold to measure its value. Another is the “Greenback” money which is a fiat money without any measurement of its actual value. This the one we use today, the dollars. Back in the 1890s, there was a strong distrust towards bankers and government. This was the beginning of "greenbacks", a fiat currency issued to help pay for Civil War expenses and were blessed as legal tender.  At first, the government can issue fiat money without limits.  Therefore, the value of Greenback need people's consent on its values. For example, the US government issues dollar bill, which is trustworthy globally. 

People trust US government issues valuable currency, which can be used in the trade. People were assured that the bill that they got can be exchanged with an equivalent one with the same value. Then the author introduces us the idea of quantity and quality embedded in the value of the fiat currency. For the issuance and supply of currency, consumers tends to desire more quantity currency since this gives them more purchasing power, but when the currency devaluates, they will prefer qualitative currency where it supports rising value. In somehow, he also explains the metaphor “barrels” used in describing the value of money in someone’s writing. 

Response to Money Book Chapter 12

This section is so weird for me. They talk about artists. From my guess, this may have something about the value of art with a value of money. Or it may have something with the popularity of the money and issue of counterfeiting the currency. With an introduction of Roy Lichtenstein, the author introduces us the idea of the pop art movement in the America. The core idea of the pop art movement is pop, which can refer to the thing people like. For example, people like the money; people are using dollar bill frequently. The using of money as an art help people experience more in their daily activities, which is movement from the making invisible become visible to pop art.

Later, the authors introduced us Andy Warhol, who is also leading artist in a pop art movement. What he did are replication and re-organized position. There is also an image of artwork done by Mr. Warhol, which is a replication of dollar bills. It is made from print-making to form some kind of the idea of freedom. The freedom of making the money and the organizing it. In this part, the authors give us some knowledge of free capitalism by Milton Friedman. It emphasizes the idea of the free market which as I know is raised by Adam Smith. Let us go back to 1960s, the WW2 just ended, President Roosevelt have lots of action on governmental controls since the idea of free market fails. However, due the recovery of the economy, people still seek the idea of freedom. Therefore, the pop art may also reflect the notion of the free from government control. At the end of this section, it is about the relationship between free economy and pop art. He talks about the power of money as well as the power of art to spread an idea.

Architecture in Seattle

Seattle Central Library

Seattle Central Library
http://www.archdaily.com/office/oma-lmn

Seattle Central Library is designed by OMA and LMN. OMA is short for the Office of Metropolitan Architecture. LMN is Seattle-based local architecture firm. The design of the building seems to focus on the shape and structure. The unique design of this building is the program. The library no longer serves the purpose of storing books exclusively. It also serves the function for people to access media, internet and audio, which is the new challenge for designing a library. From my point of view, the building emphasizes the flexibility, which allows different function can merge in together. On the other hand, the functionality did not separate the space. Instead, the architects are trying to put certain service areas jointly in a giant space. The experience of walking or escalating the building also emphasize the idea of “Flexibility.”

Olympic Sculpture Park

Olympic Sculpture Park
http://www.archdaily.com/101836/olympic-sculpture-park-weissmanfredi/bb-opening-day

The project is located on the waterfront of Seattle downtown. It is designed by Weiss Manfredi. The project serves as a new urban model for Sculpture parks. The Original site is an oil facility, which has vast land contaminated by oil waste. The new landfill soil comes from the construction of Seattle Art Museum project.

The park elevates up 40 feet top from the site of the water’s edge. From the city to the seashore, the intention is to use a hybrid pedestrian infrastructure to give a different experience for people who was walking the parks. The park is also cross a highway and a trains tracks, the infrastructure interaction is very critical in this project. The architecture uses a descending pavilion to connect all the infrastructure and the pedestrian walking experience.

Space needle

Space Needle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Graham_%26_Company#/media/File:SpaceNeedleQAClose.jpg

It is an observation tower and landmark for the City of Seattle. The original purpose of the tower is to serve as the center for 1962 World’s Fair. The tower used to be the tallest structure on the west coast. Due the weather of Seattle, the Space Needle has the capability to resist 9.1 magnitude earthquake and withstand 200miles per hours wind. It also has 25 lightning rods to resist the danger of lightning bolt.

The design of space needle is a compromise between two people Edward Carlson and John Graham Jr. Mr. Carlson as a business man, he has an idea of giant balloon rising from the ground. However, the Mr. Graham has a sketch of flying saucer. This the reason the two parts of the tower is different. 

Visit of Kurtwood Farm In Vashon Island

That is waiting line for the ferry to Vashon Island

When I arrive the Vashon Island and ready to leave the ferry.

The small downtown of Vashon Island, it is very small. From the residents saying, when the Sunday comes, the town was crowed with people from Seattle to do some running and biking here. 

The entrance of Kurtwood Farm, it is kinda secret space inside this wood. All the farm in Vashon Island is fair small compare to the one I saw in Texas and California. It is similar to Chinese suburban area. 

The sign direct you to Kurtwood, if there is no sign for the farm, i am not be able to find it.

It is the resident building - the loghouse in the farm, due to absence of the Mr.Kurtwood and danger of electric fence I can not able to take photo inside.

The Barn, i think the building behind it is the cooking house and the maybe the cheese cave.

The Tractor, maybe the one he mentioned in his book?

The mainly function for this farm is Cattle, which later I think Mr.Kurtwood write another book called Growing a Beast.

I think this is farm land for some kind of plants.

Growing a Farmer Review Part 2

Raising Animals

Mr. Kurtwood started to raise animals to keep the eternity of pasture. He started from the sheep and goat. The primary difference between the sheep and goat is whether they correspond to human existence. The sheep and cut and friendly which human raise them for lamb meat. Goat is aggressive and a potential troublemaker. Human-less likely raises the goat because they keep breaking out the fence and destroying plants. In pasture business, how you fence the animals and how to use the land is critical for a farmer. A movable fence is a big helper for raising animals, which allow them to move around. In the same time, moving the sheep greatly help the grass consumption in the land. It will assist the farmer to use the pasture land in a more sustainable way. In the same time, due to the efficient way of using the pasture, it also avoids using of the fertilizer.

Later, he introduces cow on his farm, which represents Kurtwood officially become a full-time farmer. The cow needs to be taken care of every day, and he cannot leave the farm. The cow he has is slightly different from the big farm. He raises the Jersey cow, which has very low dairy production. The process of the dairying is also very complicated. He also encounters a death and slaughter of his first cow. It is a disease which has a low curable rate. Mr. Kurtwood has no choice but killing her. By gaining more and more experience, he also gives lots of tips about how to raise the cows, purchase the cow and diary the cow. It is a very fun process when I am first reading this book. I started to think the process of raising is quite enjoyable. The milk as a production which is consumed daily, I have never thought where and how the milk come from. From reading this book, I started to question about where and how is the product is made. The author in somehow convinced me to think more about the food, which potentially increase the fun of eating it and purchasing it. He also takes about a different dairy, the raw milk. In this section, he gives us a glimpse of the relationship between politics and farming.

In general, from one aspect, it may serve the purpose of marketing his farm. However, I think the writer’s intention is from the way he records his experience as a farmer to show people how the food was grown how the cattle and fowl are raised. The experience is from first subject view, which greatly increase interests of the experience. It is much better than the book which explains the procedures. The purpose for this book is to let me know the process of how food and meat were produced or intrigue the curiosity of people. 

Cool or Cooler?

A sneak peak of the world’s first shifting carbon fiber skateboard

When you walk down the Venice Beach, you see most of the young people skating their boards on a U- Shape ramp. If you stop and watch them playing a while, you may think they are very cool. However, if you see a person walk on a ramp and pull out a small skateboard out his handbag, is that mysterious? When you see a person stretching the board to the skateboard using some mechanism and start to do all the tricks on the ramp, do you think this is cooler than other people?

It is without a doubt that Cano Design is bringing revolution to the skateboard industry. For the first time, three kinds of skateboards are fused together with the simplest, most convenient, and most perfect strategy.

Why is Cool?

Before the Cano Board, Skateboard industry had fixed a range of length for its “Product”. In an article written by Putnam, the longboard is a long skateboard of 42 to 60 inches. Its great performance on rough surface attracts more adults to use the longboards as their primary means of transportation. (Putnam, 1). The regular board is about 30-38 inches in length, and this allows players perform tricks like grinding on the rail. There is also a short board, which is convenient to carry around. Each length has its significant advantages and drawbacks. What are customers going to do when they want a board which fits the tasks of riding and doing the tricks? Maybe, buy two boards? Here is a solution.

After months of researching and experimenting, the Cano Design team breaks skateboard composition down to its significance and brings in the most advanced concepts and technologies. By analyzing skateboarder’s foot positioning, they maintain the two areas for standing and breaks down the middle part into two adjustable structures connecting front and back decks. The team also changes from the cylindrical tube into a rectangular tube for additional standing space when necessary. Additionally, its design is aimed at breaking the traditional skateboards’ limit by inventing the new sliding adjustment system. By changing the position of the front and back decks, Cano Board came up with a brand-new way of skateboarding.

The new design and technologies will bring considerable changes in the skateboard industry and influence the performance of the players positively. Another notable feature of the new design is that each side has three adjustment lengths and can make up to 9 different skateboard lengths, which can perfectly fit the purpose of long-distance riding, performing the tricks and lightweight. The new mechanism in the middle and its lightweight may also make some new tricks possible.

Coolest Parts

Normally, a skateboard has three parts: the deck, the truck, and the wheels. The deck is the actual board, which holds the weight of players and pressure resulting from performing tricks. Most of the decks are made of glue and maple wood with polyurethane coating on the surface.  Some new composite like aluminum, nylon and fiberglass have also been used and explains the existence of different types of the skateboard. Moreover, the three parts are also different depending on the use the skateboard. For example, the angle of the concavity in the board is different from other parts because of the nature of its performance. The different brands also have their significance on the product.

To further increase Board’s portability and rigidity, For Cano Board use 100% high- strength carbon fiber as the material for the decks, which is ten times rigid than maple wood. It also significantly reduces the weight of the board. In the book of “Handbook of Composite Reinforcements”, the author explains that tensile stress for a module of normal carbon fiber is 500 ksi, and its density is 80% less than steel (Stuart 73). Maple wood has 15 ksi, which is one of hardest wood available. For Shifting Mechanism, because of low shear stress on the pattern direction, they use aircraft aluminum instead of carbon fiber to overcome the high impact from doing high-level tricks. A special  switch is also used to make shifting easier and smoother. Quote from the Chief Design in the Cano Design, the use of carbon fiber and aluminum on the board, does not only reduce the weight by 50 percent, but it also increase the strength by roughly 30 percent (Wayne, interview)

Also, they introduced the design concept of a high-performance sports car to make Cano Board superior. It is a piece of art with careful detailing in each part. It is also designed in a manner that allows a player to customize the wheels and grip tapes hence meeting player’s tastes.

Cool Future

One of the concepts inside Cano Design Team is Sustainability. They believe what they create will change the way how people travel. With the help of public transportation, people literally can ride the Cano board wherever they want. The portability and performance will attract more and more people to ride skateboard again. It may also attract some people who normally ride a bike to the workplace.

The launch date is around May 2016. The main marketing methods will be online promoting with offline wholesale. Due to its high price, the primary targets for this product is working class and extreme skateboard players. To reduce the cost of the board, the company will have its initial launch at Crowdfunding platforms Such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo. It will greatly reduce expenses in distribution and advertising, hence making the board cheaper for its customers.

From the inside news, the Cano Design Team right now is working with Kia Motor and Aoxin Motor on their next generation board, Canox Skateboard. Aoxin Motor is one of leading company in new energy automobiles. Last year, they launched a massive-produced carbon fiber made an electric car. From this news, we can know that the Canox Skateboard will be electric Car.  By standing on the shoulder of the industry leader, Cano Design will have a cool electric skateboard in the future.

In the future, players can adjust Cano Board to longboard mode, cruise to Starbucks, adjust Cano Board to shortboard mode, and carry it to your future destination.

Work Cited

"Cano-Board." Personal interview of Chief Designer of Cano Design Wayne Ji. 2 Dec. 2015.

Kim, Jang-Kyo. "Handbook of Composite Reinforcements. Edited by Stuart M. Lee, VCH, Weinheim 1993, 715 Pp., Hardcover, DM 236, ISBN 3-527-89632-5." Advanced Materials 5.10 (1993): 776-7. Web.

Putnam, Bob. "LONGER BOARD, RENEWED INTEREST; A Type of Skateboard Called a Longboard has Brought some Adults Back into the Rolling Fold." The St. Petersburg Times (St. Petersburg, FL): 1. 2009. Web.

"Skateboard." How Skateboard Is Made. How Product Are Made, 14 Feb. 2016. Web. 16 Feb. 2016.

Book Review for Growing a Farmer First Half

Book Review for Growing a Farmer First Half

The book detailed describes the author’s story of becoming a farmer. The intention of this book is giving a more vivid image about how the food is growing on a farm. in my opinion, the book is serving the purpose of marketing his product and farms. The book starts from the life before the farm. The author starts his business as a small café owner. The business is good and profitable. The whole idea of the becoming a farmer comes from an apartment hunting incidents. He wants to find a house which has spaces and affordable price, which leads him to the Vashon Island in suburban Seattle. Through the experience with real estate agents, the author seems to have a vision of the previous owner’s life and his blackberry farms.

From the inspiration of “delicious morsels with juicy sweetness” in blackberry farms, the isolation of the commuting between downtown and Vashon Island and his failure of the newly opened restaurant, Mr. Timmermeister decided to become a full-time farmer. Moreover, he also bought the neighboring house to expand his farm. From the experience in the farmers market, the authors know the key success for the beginning of a small farm is the quality vegetables. Therefore, with the help from Matt, the Kurtwood farm for vegetables began. They sell vegetables to local farmers market and CSA subscriptions. The chapter 1 and 2 mainly describes the how the authors become full-time farmers. The following chapter explains the special project on his farm.

Bee-keeping

The first project is bee-keeping. Before he made his bee-keeping dream comes true, he checks the equipment, supply catalogue and city zoning requirements for his property. He started his lesson from an old book-First Lessons in Beekeeping for basic bee-keeping skills and knowledge. It is smart to do a small research before you starting a project. From the magazine and advertisement, he found series supply house for future shopping.

He introduces the serval different types of Bees from his experience of the failure, which shows the reader how hard is the bee-keeping at the beginning of this project. Moreover, the author also emphasizes the importance of weather for farming. The first failure is because of the rainy and cool weather of the Seattle. The second one is because of the transportation in a different weather zone. The success of the bee-keeping project started at the second year with small failure. The success means he will have enough honey for his and his friend. The failure means the production is too low to the market. The honey the author get is light in color and flavor. However, the color difference is due to the different season. From the spring flower, the honey mainly is dark brown. After serious study of the lives of bees, Mr. Timmermeister started to achieve success in his first project.

The most interesting part of the bee-keeping for me is how the farmer changed the hive to get the honey. It is a terrifying process for people who is looking. However, it is also an exciting moment for pouring out the honey from the hive. The key part of this process provides the colony with a new physical hive.

He also gives readers a glimpse of trick and business idea in the bee-keeping project. The thick he gives us is to use the smoke make the bees less interested in stinging. The risk management keeps more than one hives.

Fruit, Apples, Vinegar

In the center of the Kurtwood Farm, there is an orchard. The first fruits tree he planted is apples, which later also can be cider. Part of the reason for growing apples also because of the law registration support for small cider makers. The biggest challenge for this project is restricting animals from the eating the tree and fruits. For the authors, it is a long and hard process to fight with deer’s nears his farm. He tried to build serval fences to prevent the deer’s approach the trees. Finally, with the help of different size of the fence, he is able to harvest apples from the trees. Part of the product will also save for vinegar, which is an essential ingredient for cooking. He also introduced the readers a series byproduct of the apples, the cider, the vinegar, the achohol, and juicy. He also stated a project for Italian Balsamic vinegar procedure. In this chapter, he explains the intention of the farm’s project is to share with a friend not for sale.