SHAKORI HILLS FALL MUSIC FESTIVAL October 9 – 12, 2008 THREE DAYS OF CELEBRATION Emily, Amy, Bob and Camille slipped back into Hippie Land for a few days. Emily and Amy did us proud with their tie dyed head scarves. They sure are pretty! We hauled our own food and chairs which we set up […]
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LOCAL FOOD AT CAMELINA In the kitchen, in the garden and in the woods September, 2008 MAKING BEER ON A FRIDAY AFTERNOON David brought over two big bags of Cascade hops that he planted on Jason and Haruka’s farm, Edible Earthscapes. Sefira took these photos of David’s fragrant hops and Tim giving them the
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TROUTS LATEST PHOTOS In which we celebrate Bob’s 50th birthday, brew beer, say “bye bye” to Jack, add baskets to Augusta, muck stalls, and hunt for mushrooms. September, 2008 – Issue #88 HAPPY FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY, BOB It’s hard to believe he’s been on this planet for fifty years. Check out the tribute Camille put together
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THE CRITTERS OF OUR LIVES THE FOUR GUINEAS OF THE APOCALYPSE Every day they make their rounds, picking out bugs, taking dust baths and raising a ruckus when warranted. At dusk, they fly up into the trees to roost. OH DEER Camille snapped this from the front porch of her bosses home
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SAUNTERING NATURALISTS September 28, 2008 A WALK IN THE WOODS On a beautiful fall day, we found some spare time to go exploring. The leaves are still green on the trees but the flowering smoke grass signals the end of winter with an explosion of seeds. MUSHROOMS ARE EVERYWHERE And they can be frightening
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END OF SUMMER ABUNDANCE The Glorious Harvests of August, 2008 MATERS Round here they call tomatoes “maters,” the variety above is called Homestead, but a tomato by any other name is still a beautiful thing to behold on the vine. Bob shows off a basket of ripe tomatoes, some of which we grew and
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TROUTS LATEST PHOTOS A month of good friends, good harvests and a road trip to Washington DC August, 2008 – Issue #87 WE ARE RICH IN FRIENDSHIPS Jack and Adah stopped by at dusk and before we knew it they were showing us their chipmunk lips. As the summer intern program drew to a
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A TRIP TO WASHINGTON DC August 12 – 14, 2008 SUCKING DOWN FUMES DC commuters have accepted this kind of traffic as a way of life. We country folk don’t think we could do this routinely. AT HOME IN NED’S HOUSE Ned graciously opened his home to us for a two-night stay. Sadly, he
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CLEAN TECH GOES TO POGOIL August 13, 2008 POGO LAND We’ve beenwanting to see where Frankie works and this is it – a sprawling tree removal service turned compost producer known as Pogo Organics. On the way in, we drove past barns full of old hay, presumably for making compost and some horses. And this
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MUSHROOMS AT CAMELINA July, 2008 WILD MUSHROOMS Everywhere we look, wild mushrooms are popping up, including this poisonous bolete, below. CULTIVATED MUSHROOMS The burlap bags Bob and Rob infused with oyster mushroom mycelium are really coming on. The mycelium is running and the tiny mushrooms are popping out. These perfectly tiny oysters
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