Earning Our Keep

The next few days were filled with awesome adventures, delicious food, great company, and a little hard work peppered in here and there. Monday was rainy, so we did a lot of work cleaning out some spaces in the greenhouse; clearing out wells, weeding, planting kale, cilantro, etc. Beacuse of the weather, we enjoyed a late start, longer lunch, and overall easier day. (special mention to April here for her homemade chocolates: Cacao powder, coconut oil, maple syrup and lavender...yum!)


Once it dried up a bit in the afternoon, we did some harvesting (snap peas). We also got to pull up the old peas that weren't fruiting any more and feed those to the sheep. The sheep live in a pasture out beyond the garden. There are about ten of them, some old, some young. When they see you coming toward the fence, they run, yelping, down the hill and let out these awesome sounds reminiscent of vomiting, that can't help but crack you up. "Blaaaah!"

Tuesday was a beautiful day so we spent most of the day weeding carrots, harvesting green beans, and making a big group trip back to Brown's for a big blueberry pick. Tuesday evening Amber and I took Julia, a girl who comes to help out on the farm every couple of weeks, to our newfound favorite swimming hole. Yet again, a gorgeous swim.