There has been a lot of harvesting going on lately! We have gotten three paper grocery bags full of salad and mustard greens, two big beautiful bunches of kale, two big bunches of radishes, an onion or two, a tiny strawberry, some sorrel...
Sorrel:
Strawberry:
Radishes:
Kale:
Mixed greens:
Ash installed a three sister's bed (corn, squash, and beans):
And we had to kill a copperhead :(
(Copperhead in the woods= walk away. Copperhead in your garage = get out the rouge hoe)
The most exciting recent development was learning how to make cob!! Our friends Greg and Danielle are cob experts and are going to one day help us build our very own house.
Step one... dry mix the clay and sand.
Step two... add water (not too much!!) and mix it with your feet.
Step three... add straw or horse manure when the mix looks like a burrito. Mix in with your feet again.
Step four... roll into balls so you can carry it around and apply easier, and then COB IT UP!!!
We left big fingerprints in it to give the plaster something to adhere to later.
The deer fence is still not up. If anyone knows someone who doesn't charge like $2000 to help us put up a high tensile electric fence... send them our way! We have started using string to try and let out where we want it to go, but we're using the tree line an awful lot and would hate to make an expensive mistake that could have been caught in the planning stages.
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