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June, 2009 - Issue #97

 

NONAGENARIAN

 

Camille turned fifty-five on June 4th and Stephanie, thirty-nine on June 8th.  Together, they are ninety years old this year.

 

SALAD SPINNER

 

Jim and Kathryn sent Camille a new kitchen toy for her birthday, just in time for salad season!

 

SOUTH CAROLINA GETAWAY

 

Bob decided to whisk Camille away for a weekend of bed and breakfasting, where we met our new friend, Ellen, wining, dining, hiking and learning about mushroom cultivation at a workshop.  See photos from the weekend here:  Mushroom Mountain

 

HARVESTS

 

Bob harvested his little wheat field and was proud to reap enough wheat for a small muffin.  Every Tuesday we pick up our CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) share of vegetables from Edible Earthscapes and every other Tuesday, we pick up from Piedmont Biofarms as well.  This was one of those bountiful weeks which stuffed our refrigerator, pots, pans and ultimately, bellies with astonishingly flavorful food.  From left: daikon, chard, garlic, lettuce, beets, cucumber, cabbage, carrots, more cabbage, lettuce, beets, cucumbers, onions, parsley and basil.

 

BOB'S NEW JOB

 

Bob has joined the ranks of Ecoblend, the producers of organic pesticides, bug repellents and herbicides.  They are located in the Piedmont Eco-Industrial Park where Camille works.  The crew has decided to target the honeysuckle on the fence, poison ivy and wire grass (not shown) with their soy methyl ester based emulsion.  Obviously, this ivy has not yet been sprayed.

 

BREEZE FARM INCUBATOR

 

Ecoblend is interested in working with small, organic farms.  Bob went to visit this farm as part of that campaign.

 

BRANDON AND AMARANTH

 

And there he found our friend Brandon, who interned for Edible Earthscapes last summer.  As per usual, Brandon was hard at work growing, among other thing, amaranth.

 

SEVEN POUND CABBAGE 

From Breeze Farm which challenges the maxim "Don't eat anything larger than your head."

 

MOVING THE BUS OUT

Matt found a buyer for the VW bus which sits across the driveway from Camelina.  Bob felt it was in our best to help load it up.  Bob steadies the back end to keep it from jumping over the front lip of the trailer while Matt pushes it from the front end.

 

COMMUNITY EFFORT

 

Jessica sat in the cab with her foot on the brake until Matt and Simon got the harness over the rear wheels.

 

HAY SEED

They came and made hay again, just like last year.  We like to just sit and look at these one ton bales with a beer or a glass of wine.  The original idea behind oilseed was to grow an energy crop.   Hay has long been an energy crop, producing horsepower, milk and meat.

 

BRIGHT LIGHTS

 

The Bright Lights Chard and Echinacea were the stars of the garden on the last day of the month.  See more fruit and flower photos here: Flowering Garden - June 2009

THIS MONTH'S QUOTES:

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

- Robert Heinlein

" I refuse to work hard for income with which the ultra rich will play Global Monopoly and the American military will play Global Risk." - Link Shumaker

When the time comes when we do look back to understand what went wrong, I think we'll see that the Woodstock generation went off the rails in 1980, with the election of the actor, Ronald Reagan, who really established the idea that a society could benefit hugely just by lying to itself, or simply pretending. - James Howard Kunstler http://kunstler.com/blog/2009/07/the-free-and-the-dead.html

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