What's it like to live on a farm? Here's a few windows into what our daily lives look like on the farm and at home.
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| Rochelle. Stirring up some sourdough for our daily bread |
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In our kitchen, making a batch of ravioli, bread and good conversation.
Wesley, Kayla and Rochelle. |
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| Outdoor house cat, Lentil in the tree hiding from the dogs |
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| All hands on deck as the crew churns out a batch of pumpkin ravioli! |
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| Clay's first batch of woodstove bread, waiting to be cooked |
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| Emily and Mike, boiling the ravioli's |
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"This isn't a carrot" carrot pulled from my carrot patch.
I thought it was a weed, but much to my surprise when I pulled it out it was a mammoth carrot! |
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| My carrot patch! On the right is a pea patch in the making.... |
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| Attentive listeners Clay and Brian tuning into lecture up at Bob's place |
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| Our teacher and mentor, Bob Cannard |
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| Amanda, enjoying a fresh tangerine picked right off the tree at Bob's place |
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| The crew, getting a demo on composting |
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| In the greenhouse, our first batch of germinating seeds. Each intern was given 4 flats to plant four different varieties of seeds during the weekend of the full moon. |
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| Sprouting up! Salad bowl lettuce is beginning to grow |
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| Early morning yoga as the sun rises over the hills, led by Cricket with appearances from Farley the farm dog |
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| Our chickens |
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| Getting up close and personal with a fine feathered friend. Thanks for the golden eggs every morning! |
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| Amanda and Brian out collecting the greens for the chickens. The more greens they eat the more golden the yoke! |
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In the morning we go out to the fields to harvest the bounty for the farm store.
Pulling up beets and cutting red chard was this mornings venture. |
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| A box of harvested beets ready to be washed. Yummm! |
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| Beautiful beats drying in the sun after their harvest bath |
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| Emily getting a box of goldies ready to take to the store |
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| Mike, Clay and the beets |
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| Wesley with the beet bunches |
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| Colleen in the brussel sprout patch |
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| A happy stalk of brussel sprouts, ready for harvesting |
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| In the heart of the leafs hides a small head of green cabbage |
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| Chip making signs for the farm store |
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| Instead of snowmen, we build pumpkin people |
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| Time to compost all those leftovers Rochelle |
