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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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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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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BIODIVERSITY BEDS Landscaping with Kim at Piedmont Biofuels July, 2008 HARD, REWARDING WORK Camille only has one thing to say about Kim – she is a joy to work with! She took on the challenge of weeding and mulching four large beds of native plants for a biodiversity project being funded by a grant
WELCOME TO THE HOTEL CAMELINA We had two sets of overnight visitors in July. Frankie, Amy and Tony came for one night and Matt, Sarah and Andrew the two following nights. Frankie and his interns got in late and left early but we were able to spend a bit more time with Matt and his
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HAY BALES July 1, 2008 There are eighty three acres at Oilseed, many of them open pasture. When a crew came to cut and bale, Camille was excited. After it was all baled, we got up early and photographed them morning sun. CAMILLE LOVES THE LOOK OF A FRESHLY BALED HAY FIELD You can see
OUR BOUNTIFUL GARDEN – BOB’S LABOR OF LOVE A month of ups and downs at Guantanamo May, 2008 HERB’S EYE VIEW Guantanamo is the name Bob gave his vegetable garden. He was inspired to name it Cuba after reading Richard Heinberg’s “Fifty Million Farmers” but that name had already been taken by Lyle for
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MATT’S WORLD May 21, 2008 MAKING FUEL AT THE COLLEGE Matt has a nifty biodiesel plant at Dickinson College and some groovy interns to run it with. Their latest rage is making liquid hand soap from the waste glycerin. MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE FARM Wearing his other hat, Matt and his partner Jen are running
