GUINEA UPDATE.

Our guineas are growing! They are getting so big (and so LOUD). We are hoping soon to start letting them free-range - right now, they are in a portable coop that we move several times a day. We tried letting them loose last week, but the dummies did not come back to roost - choosing to sleep on the GROUND in a big pile in the woods. Knowing they would be promptly eaten, we put them back inside their coop for a bit longer, trying to get them used to roosting there.Any ideas? Should we just let them out and hope for the best? Or wait a big longer for them to get acclimated to their little perch in the coop? We are eager for them to be FREE and start eating all of our ticks!- Hannah. 

SETTING OUT FALL TRANSPLANTS.

Last week, while Jesse was recovering from his porch tumble, Cher and Eric and I set out a thousand (literally!) of transplants for the fall garden....lettuce, celery, leeks,  cauliflower. It is SO exciting to start thinking about the fall garden - cooler weather, abundant greens, all in all, a much EASIER time of year for us. Eric direct seeded several more rows of carrots and kale, and we started cabbage and pac choi and collards in soil blocks. The butternut squash and sweet potatoes are coming along nicely, and all these chilly nights we've been having have me a bit impatient for FALL!- Hannah.

TODAY'S HAPPENINGS.

First off, check out our friend's The Breedings new record "Fayette"— out today! The Breedings are an Americana brother/sister duo from Kentucky (and indeed aware that they are a brother/sister duo from Kentucky named The Breedings). Their songs are tuneful, melodically rich, beautiful and catchy. Watch their new video for "Calm" and check the new record on iTunes!Secondly, we decided to come to Bowling Green today and we'll be setting up at the Community Farmer's Market this evening. We've got plenty of vegetables and t-shirts available—please come say hi!- Jesse.

THE GRAVITY OF GRAVITY.

I was thinking about the watermelon I'd just eaten, and about picking up the cutting board. I wasn't thinking about the three and a half feet between me and the ground. Any other time I would have had no reason to, but suddenly and violently, gravity gave me reason.It's an unreal force, gravity. It's a wonder our ancestors ever decided standing on two legs was a good idea. I felt as if I had been grabbed by an invisible, angry wrestler and body slammed. Fast. At a speed of thirty-two feet per second per second, to be exact. I had stepped over the cutting board, put all my weight on the side of the porch, and the next thing I knew I was on the ground, convinced I'd just ended my career as a biped. As a farmer.But I lucked out: some minor scrapes, some whiplash, a bruised arm, and a sore back. No broken bones. Not bad. I lived, thankfully, to tell the tale and to remind everyone to appreciate balance—gravity will punish you for excess.- Jesse.

Our remedies for an almost-broken bone - comfrey and arnica!