2010 ANNUAL ROAD TRIP NORTH 1500 miles driven, a dozen households and thirty-seven people visited, countless smiles, laughs, hugs and stories traded May 12 through 21, 2010 SHENANDOAH VALLEY – OLD DOGS AND RASPBERRIES This year’s pilgrimage started in the Shenandoah Valley with Glen Rodes and family and then on to Keezletown where Catherine Armentrout […]
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HANGING OUT WITH NED IN CABIN JOHN May 19 & 20, 2010 GOOD FRIENDS NEVER GROW OLD Camille felt honored to take the customary photo of Ned and Bob in their sunglasses. It’s become a time honored tradition, reaching back thirty years. 🙂 A FIXER UPPER Ned’s house was a construction zone when we
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BARNYARD AND FIELD – SPRING BABIES Nothing says spring like new life March, 2010 FRIESIAN CROSS MILK SHEEP AT LAUGHING STOCK FARM A couple of miles down the road, good friend Lisa is raising dairy sheep. This breed is easily identified by their distinctive “rat tail.” Her dairy cow makes too much milk so she
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TWO THOUSAND POUND OF MANURE (aka A SHIT TON) AT BLUE HERON FARM ALPACAS In which Jason, Haruka, Bob and Camille drive over to Nancy’s place in search of some good soil amendments and drive off with at least two thousand pounds of poo March 28, 2010 THIS BE THE SH-T! Nancy proudly shows
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WALK TO ABEYANCE WITH JASON AND HARUKA There’s nothing more fun than a walk with good friends and a destination. On this pretty Spring morning we were headed through the woods to the nearby community of Abeyance with our good friends and next door neighbors. March 13, 2010 IRRIGATION POND EXCAVATION Our first stop
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RICE PADDY-MAKING CROP MOB AT EDIBLE EARTHSCAPES February 28, 2010 EARLY MORNING RICE PADDIES Crop Mob is a growing phenomenon in our neck of the woods. Started by friends of ours who sought to tackle large tasks with a large labor force while solving the problem of isolation, crop mobbing reminds us of Amish barn
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A TRIP TO ASHEVILLE TO SEE YONDER February 6, 2011 ROOM WITH A VIEW Bob drove Camille, Amy and Garth west for three and a half hours where we unfolded ourselves from the car and took our bags up a room with a view of Asheville, the largest city in Western North Carolina with
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DIGGIN’ OUR NEW DIGS January, 2010 WELCOME! It took us seventeen years and fourteen moves, but we may have finally settled down. Bob painted the front door red to symbolize our good fortune. When you step into the house you are in the living room with its propane log fireplace. At some point, we will
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VISITING NEW BERN A little weekend getaway January 15 and 16, 2010 A HISTORIC TOWN Using CFSA’s (Carolina Farm Stewardship Association) 2010 Commercial Organic Production Conference as an excuse to drive to the East Coast, we drove to New Bern, the second oldest town in North Carolina. New Bern’s city flag honors the mother-daughter
NEW YEARS DAY January 1, 2010 Kicking off a new decade with good friends at our new home at the bend in the road ZEBRA PICTURES Everybody gets a moment in the sun with the Trouts Farm mascot, Spot. Allen and Steve Arlo, Zafer, Lyle, Andy and Jill. David, Rachel and Scott
