Are you tilling? Doing raised beds? We're planting a bit this year and dealing with weeds, etc. has been a hassle (also, most of the no-dig crowd seem to basically advocate using many tons of compost, which is great but not something you can assume a steady supply of)
We're making semi raised beds up the hill: https://twitter.com/simonsarris/status/1246544902193909769?s...
With house compost and composted manure from a local farmer. The lower garden is mostly no till with added compost. We're not really sure what we're doing! So I can't really give advice.
I usually document what I'm working on on Twitter as a micro blog
I used to run and bike past so many houses that look like this, and some part of me always wanted to do what you're doing. So thank you for sharing your journey!
Then it turned into "Turn right where the cows used to be."
Then it became "Turn right at the ____ subdivision."
When I was young I did a lot of bicycling and running. In early high school (1980s) a friend and I used to ride our bikes as far as we could in the morning, and then try to find our way back without asking for directions. We found all kinds of old back roads and small cemeteries and old stone walls and other remnants of old New England. Now when I go back and go for a run or a drive it's endless subdivisions. I don't resent that at all, I know things grow and change. But it's certainly part of why I don't miss Nashua much except for nostalgia.
For all the changes they can't get the downtown to "work" and they are really, really bad at trying. I tried too: the mayor appointed me to the downtown improvement committee where I got to watch nothing happen first hand.
The virus is going to have a serious impact here, like so many places. So many people depend on the summer tourism season to make a living. There are charter fishing operations, tour operations, retail operations. Those people and businesses will make almost nothing this year. And when this is over, how long will it take people to be able to afford summer travel again?
May I suggest welded mesh?
Building skills, I'm almost finished a chicken coop. I made a dry stone arch bridge but it failed because the frame sank, I will try again. I am learning carving to make wooden animal toys for my child, who will be born in July (I have made a bear and a fox, soon an elephant, but they still need to be sanded). I would like to learn timber framing and make a small cabin on the land but it may be too expensive, now.
I'm trying to make an animated village for my site background with HTML Canvas, and originally I was making it procedurally, but its too ugly, so I will have to learn some digital illustration until it's beautiful.