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TROUTS
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January, 2011 Issue
#116
SECOND
ANNUAL NEW YEAR’S DAY HOPPIN’ JOHN PARTY
The first day of a
new year is perfect for welcoming our friends to Trouts Farm. A great time
to get caught up, share a bowl of lucky black eyed peas, rice and greens, sip
some champagne and orange juice, play some crokinole and get photos of our
friends with the yard art. More photos
on this page: Second Annual New Years Day Hoppin John Party
TUSCANY
DAYS
These icy winter
days are perfect for not driving. Camille took advantage of a work at home
day and walked over to Tami’s to work at her kitchen
table. After a couple of hours, Jennie and Dana arrived to whisk Camille
off for a walk in Tami’s woods. Both Jennie and Dana are jumping off
into a new phase of their lives, Jennie is joining forces with a new farm and
Dana will be volunteering her nursing expertise in Guatemala.
THE FROZEN
SOUTH
Who knew we’d be
chipping ice after moving to The South? Bob and Camille took turns
clearing ice from our entry ways in preparation for potluck. The birds
faced a feeder challenge after icicles barred their entry. We thought they
would just break the ice off but they were too tiny to break the icicles.
Instead, the finches and sparrows took turns squeezing between the icicles and getting a good
feed while others fluttered outside looking for a way in.
SNOTTY
SPOT
Bob and Camille both had colds
this month and Spot looks a little snotty, too. Didn’t seem to bother him,
though.
PROMISE OF
WARMER DAYS
Even on the
coldest days, a clear sky builds hope that winter will soon be over.
STARTING
THE GARDEN
Bob is trying two
seed starting methods this year, soil blocking on the left and winstrips on the
right.
GROWING IT
NEXT DOOR
Our fresh produce
comes from Edible Earthscape’s greenhouse next door. Haruka plants seeds
while Amy, Garth and Jason make a new bed using broad forks and rakes. We
are very pleased that Amy
and Garth have moved to North Carolina this month and thrown in with our
community.
APPRENTICE
WORK
There’s a lot to
learn about farming and Jason is helping Amy and Garth learn. Garth has
been accepted as the new farm apprentice beginning in March. Meanwhile, he
and Amy are volunteering as they settle into their new home.
ALWAYS A
GOOD TIME
Dinner with
friends never fails to entertain and rejuvenate. Shaine shares an after
dinner laugh in our living room.
BUSY
KITCHEN
From Peanut
Brittle to Pizza, it was a busy month in the kitchen for the four of us.
Here’s some more pictures: Cooking up a Storm
BOUQUETS
On Friday, Amy
helped Haruka harvest and made beautiful chard bouquets. On Saturday,
Camille and Haruka went for a walk and came back with bouquets of holly, grasses
and ferns. Haruka’s addition of eucalyptus from the green house added
beauty and aromatherapy.
SAXAPAHAW
We joined the
Piedmont Biofuels crowd for a ribbon cutting for their newest biodiesel tank in
Saxapahaw. Followed by drinks at The
Eddy Pub. Tami shared these great
photos of Bob and Lyle, Lyle and Tami, Bob and Camille, Amy and Garth.
MAKING THE
MOST OF A GLORIOUSLY WARM DAY
It only takes one unseasonably warm day to get us all outside with a healthy case of Spring
fever. That day came to us on January 30th and we decided to make the most
of it. Jason drove Haruka, Camille, Amy and Garth to nearby Shearon Harris park. Jeremy joined Jason
and Garth for a round of Disc Golf while Amy, Haruka and Camille went for a walk,
stopping at a sunny meadow to do some hula hooping.
THIS MONTH’S QUOTES:
“We are losing our minds if
we believe that the source of our power lies in a circle of rigs named Deepwater
Horizon. The source of authentic power is housed in the sacred nature of life,
interdependent and whole, where a reverence for what is both human and wild is
not only cultivated but honored. We must see our denial of this truth for what
it is: madness.” – Terry Tempest Williams from “The Gulf Between
Us”
“Every day, regardless of
what else was happening on site – whether our chores had been sabotaged by
nature or our own mistakes, whether it was freezing cold or boiling hot, at high
noon or three in the morning – there would be a moment when I would pause,
look around, and feel as if everything in the universe was right and good, that
the world and my role in it were in complete harmony. I kid you not, this
happened once a day, every day, no matter what.” – Devin Ross
“There is no solution to the
“drug problem,” or to the problem of environmental destruction or the
problem of nuclear weapons stockpiles, until and unless our self-image as a
species is reconnected to the earth.” -Terence McKenna, “Food of the
Gods”
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