YOUNG FARMER LOVE.
It would be thoroughly impossible to describe how moved we were to read this particular post from the wonderful family over at Need More Acres. If you live in Bowling Green, please support this family. And not just this weekend, but every weekend forever.
*photo from Need More Acres - some beautiful heirlooms!*
NEW VIDEO.
On Friday we took a rainy day trip down to Bugtussle to get some plants in the high tunnel and take some better measurements of the cabin site. We can now get a better idea of the cabin design and square footage. Hopefully, we'll start posting some blueprint pictures soon and in less than two weeks we'll be relocating to Bugtussle to start the infinite quantities of clearing required before we can start framing, then––anagrammatically––farming.To help continue promotion on our fundraiser, we've made another video from our day! Please watch and continue to share our fundraiser page––we're half way to our goal with 28 days left to raise the rest but we can't do it without your help! In the video you'll see the cabin site and how much work we have ahead of us before we can even start construction. Watch the video HERE!- Jesse.
HIGH TUNNELING.
After having our land surveyed, we found out we're taking over 7.48 acres. Most of it's densely overgrown, but as we mentioned before there is plenty of excellent potential: a salvageable barn, a well, a spring and a high tunnel. High tunnels are like large, unheated greenhouses which are meant to extend your season. We plan to immediately take advantage of this––effective tomorrow! We're driving down to Bugtussle with a truck full of transplants––young kale, lettuce, collards, and spinach. We will be cleaning out the overgrown tunnel and getting these little veggies growing!On our trip we'll also be getting better measurements of our cabin site, and taking more pictures, gathering ideas. As daunting as our next phase is, we're very excited and anxious to get started. And in less than three weeks, we'll be doing precisely that: clearing land, plotting, hauling and planning. Over the next couple months we'll be getting cabin plans organized, seeking out lumber and setting tentative dates for building parties. The real building will probably not take place until early spring, but there's plenty of prep to occupy our time, and hopefully––thanks to the high tunnel––plenty of fresh greens to occupy our stomachs.- Jesse.
STING.
So I got stung on the eyelid yesterday...
Hannah was cutting my hair by the pear tree and we must have been in its flight path. The bee got tangled in Hannah's hair then, frustrated and frantic, attacked me. I had no idea if it stung me or not for a few seconds, but had Hannah look at my eyelid and check for the stinger. And there it was, pumping vigorously.Hannah could probably better explain it, but when a bee stings you it loses its stinger and that stinger is a muscle that continues to pump poison until it runs out or you remove it. I would have liked to have seen this in action, as Hannah said it was pretty amazing, but it was too painful to leave it in until I could find a mirror. I'll be honest, I cussed a little.However, it didn't make yesterday all bad. We shared a delicious breakfast in the morning with our friend Jamie from sustainablekentucky.com who later posted my next fermentation article on Kombucha. We also dug the rest of our sweet potatoes out from under their frosted vines and got them curing. We don't have a particularly warm place to put them so we're pulling my truck into the sun during the day, and loading the cab with the baskets. Then at night, since it's been dipping below 40 degrees already (!), we haul them back inside. Anything to get them to a point in which we can dig in! I miss few things quite like I miss sweet potatoes. Two more weeks...- Jesse.