PERKS.
Just a little update....we added some "perks" to our fundraising page. SO - if you have been wanting one or our tote bags, or a taste of Jesse's wine, or even a sketch or painting of mine - check it out!- Hannah.
SWEET POTATO SNEAK PEEK.
Jesse and I have been anxious about our sweet potatoes. Every day we walk past the rows, long and lush and full of wild vines. They look healthy enough - but it is hard to pass them bay day after day, month after month....just hoping that everything under ground is doing as well as the greenery above.We saved sweet potatoes from Bugtussle to use as our slips ( a process you can read about HERE). These sweet potatoes are seriously on another level - neither of us has ever tasted one as sweet as a Bugtussle sweet potato! If our potatoes can even have half of the flavor, we will be proud!Our plan was to dig up the potatoes around the end of September...but we wanted to just make sure everybody was OK down there. So Jesse harvested a little of the row earlier this week....and TAH-DAH! Potatoes! We are pretty pleased with this small sampling. As far as the taste, the potatoes have to cure for a couple of weeks to lose some of the starchiness and become sweet. So alas, we will just have to wait a little longer.- Hannah.
*ALSO* please don't forget to check out and share our fundraising page!
HOW TO HELP US BUILD.
Perhaps it's because we're stubborn and want to do things on our own, or perhaps it's because we really were succeeding there for a while, but we've long been reluctant to directly ask for donations....especially since so many of you helped out with our first farm back in Owingsville! Still, when we were asked to leave the land we were leasing here in Danville, we were effectively asked to leave behind most all of our investments, and all of our potential earnings for next year––the garden. The perennials we'd planted and weeded all season that were poised to pay off next season; the fencing we'd bought and put up; the hand-plowed quarter acre––almost all of it has to be chalked up as a loss, and we have to start over with practically nothing.Thanks to a generous family, however, we now have a wonderful and exciting piece of land on which to rebuild, but that piece of land needs a lot of work, and a cabin. We have seen lots of our friends raise money for their own projects through kickstarter-type websites, and have been encouraged by many of them to start a campaign of our own.So...we are humbly coming before you to ask for a little assistance. We have managed a couple thousand dollars through odd jobs and vegetable sales, but still need several thousand more to pull this off. Our goal is $8,500, but anything and everything will help.Please follow this link to our Indiegogo page and read more! And if you're like us and don't have spare money but still would like to help....the main way that these kind of fundraising campaigns work is through SHARING! Share the link on facebook, twitter, myspace if you're still into that....spread the word! And of course, a simple, encouraging note is always appreciated, or you can always come lend a hand once we get started! There will definitely be a fresh meal or two involved.- Jesse & Hannah.
WENDELL WEDNESDAY.
Jesse and Wendell had a full day of playing while I was at work today. I call this photo..."Is this thing on??"- Hannah.