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Twin Oaks Earthquake, announcements on quake day


Valerie and Alexis stand up to make various important announcements related to the quake to communards sitting outside ZK at dinner.
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Twin Oaks Community Earthquake, damage to MT


Our auto/metal/farm/etc shop building, Modern Times (MT), was badly damaged by the quake.
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Twin Oaks Community Earthquake, dinner line after quake


We ate dinner the first night outside, cooked by Lish. We were uncertain if it was safe to re-enter our buildings yet. There are some quick interviews with people in line for dinner: person on the path, experience of the quake.
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Twin Oaks Community Nashoba Addn


Collect South Anna river rock from below millpond with tractor and dump truck to use as fill for Nashoba building addition.
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Twin Oaks Community New Large PV Array & Gardening


Some construction pics of the new 10 kw PV array installed by Shockhoe Solar company. We did some of the work, such as digging the wiring trench. Large crew was in the garden at the time, planting potatoes.
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Twin Oaks Community Rowan & Luuk birthday party


Recent celebration at Kaweah Beechside of the births of Twin Oaks children Rowan and Luuk. Cakes were decorated by Jesse (and Jess?).
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Twin Oaks Community Huge Solar PV Array


A 10 kilowatt photovoltaic electricity generating array is nearing completion at Twin Oaks. This is a grid-excited net-metered installation, though we'll probably also modify it to run a well pump during power outages. The State of Virginia has provided a sizable tax credit or other rebate.
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Twin Oaks Community Ag Well Pump Replacement


Rusty feeds our Ag Well pump, pipe and wire back into the well after replacement. Note the large crew of helpers, carrying the pipe/wire over to be lowered into the deep well.
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Twin Oaks Community organic garden transplanting


Twin Oakers and a visitor program participant perform some spring transplanting--kale and cabbage.
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Twin Oaks Community new large PV array


A 10 kilowatt photovoltaic electricity generation project is under construction, grid-tied, net metered. Also in this photo, spring potato planting (late this year due to all the snow.)
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Twin Oaks Community stage musical 'Greasel'


One song from a Twin Oaks musical based on the hit movie Grease. The musical was heavily adapted to fit Twin Oaks culture. (Greasel is the name of grease-derived biodiesel fuel.) Note that several good qualify videos from this event were posted later on youtube by FECtv.
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Twin Oaks Community Variety Show - Salsa


Roberto and Marta, members of Twin Oaks, perform a wonderful salsa dance. Music is "Dicen Que Soy" by La India.
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Twin Oaks Community Variety Show


Biddy, Trout and Ezra perform "The Night Before" by the Beatles, to an appreciative Twin Oaks audience in ZK dining room. Variety shows, aka coffeehouses, are an occasional happening.
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Twin Oaks Community Halloween 2009


Random people getting ready for Halloween costume parade.
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Twin Oaks Community Rebuilt Varnishing Bldg Oz


Rebuilt Oz showing electrical work in progress, spray booth not yet connected.
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Twin Oaks Community Replaced Ag Well Facilities


Much progress has been made replacing the agricultural well facilities lost during the barn fire this spring. We hope to have this new pumphouse in operation before cold weather sets in.
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Twin Oaks Community tofu business


Quick look at our Tofu dairy showing some new equipment and a shift in process.
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Twin Oaks Community potato harvest


Tractor digger driven by Casey as a large garden crew, members and visitors, picks up and sorts this spring's huge harvest. We got over 7000 lbs!
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Twin Oaks Community Red Barn birthday party


Keenan has been doing a major remodel of the old Red Barn, a crumbling building used for storing building and maintenance materials. This party was a sort of grand re-opening, held inside and around the barn, combined with his 50th birthday party and Zadek's birthday. A number of ex-members were in attendance along with members and visitors.
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