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June 2011
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sunrise : let out chicks. scrub waters. feed the masses. morning : collect summer’s first tomatoes in a dusty ol’ shirt.late morning : chase piglets through the amaranth forest that is now the garden pen.noon : breakfast of tomato, cuke, onion salad wi…
...read moretheives in the onion patch
we seem to be in a root vegetable groove. i have been obsessively reading –well, as obsessively as a farmer such as myself can find time to read– root cellaring: natural cold storage of fruits and veggies. and so the roots are comin out! yesterday we…
...read morelongest acres. 2011-06-22 16:16:00
my sister is here. my mandolin pluckin’, barefoot runnin’, tree talkin’ sister. and her boyfriend. for a month. farming and summer and my sweet sister. i don’t know how i could be so lucky. so you’ll have to excuse the lack of photos as we are diving r…
...read morelongest acres. 2011-06-22 16:16:00
my sister is here. my mandolin pluckin’, barefoot runnin’, tree talkin’ sister. and her boyfriend. for a month. farming and summer and my sweet sister. i don’t know how i could be so lucky. so you’ll have to excuse the lack of photos as we are diving r…
...read moregive me color
i beginning to understand that i take color for granted. seeing it. touching it. absorbing it. i am often overwhelmed or overpowered by a color. but i rarely appreciate it for its very being. i know a man who doesn’t see color…or rather, sees very fe…
...read moregive me color
i beginning to understand that i take color for granted. seeing it. touching it. absorbing it. i am often overwhelmed or overpowered by a color. but i rarely appreciate it for its very being. i know a man who doesn’t see color…or rather, sees very fe…
...read morea chocolate milk chuggin’ fool
oh its been a long one. you mustn’t be cross with me for being such a negligent recorder this week. we were thrown right into the bowels of Farm Summer. it started off innocent. i spent monday, as promised, soaking in jordan family time accompanied by …
...read morele week-end according to the farm.
another working weekend gone. one week through june and we are as hot as can be. i am getting overly and prematurely nostalgic for this farm. for this good southern state. for these animals. for these southern people. i can’t believe we are just 2 mont…
...read morehey, we made the paper..
well, the local farmer’s market e-newsletter. sweet photo, even if i do look a bit deranged. i think nick and i were mid-heated argument over which beer is tastier.thank you heather for the pic. and thank you kari for passing it along.
...read moreyou can’t get rid of me that easy…
you may note the date. june 1st. i wrote just one month ago that i would do the blog walk of shame and come back for one month. like a basketball player coming out of retirement to play with the harlem globetrotters…yes, exactly like that. but …
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