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October, 2010 Issue #113
THERE’S
NOTHING LIKE FAMILY
Emily, Amy and
Molly flew out from Colorado with their boyfriends for Shakori Music Festival
and the next week cousin Houston drove up from Pembroke for an over nighter.
More on the Festival story here: Shakori Fall 2010
HARD
WORKING MEN
Bob put Matt,
Garth and Shane to work planting two pear trees that Lyle gave us.
Matt and Shane get
after it!
PHLOX
GARDEN
Everyone got
involved weeding and preparing a spot for the last phlox plant. Camille
was very pleased.
BOUNTY
Bob’s garden
continues to flourish, putting out radishes, eggplant, peppers and tobago
seasoning peppers which are a not-so-hot version of a habanero.
PLAYING
WITH OUR FOOD
Nothing new here –
we like to play with our food. The picture on the left is much of what was
in the refrigerator the day Camille decided the best way to use carrots,
peppers, green beans, eggplant, onion, and greens was to make curry. She
roasted the eggplant to use as a topping along with peanuts and peaches we
canned several months ago. It was nice served over rice. Here’s a
link to our recipe: Trouts Vegan Curry
These three radishes, two of them daikon reminded us of a bleeding heart.
LOTS OF
COMPANY
Spot happily
welcomed some new faces this month. Check them out at Spot Ops
Linus showed up for dinner wearing his Halloween outfit.
PICTURE
PERFECT
Both Molly and
Camille did a little posing. Molly for her year book picture and Camille
because she bought some new clothes. See them all here: Portraits – Molly and Camille
LUCKY US
We joined our
friends for a tour of nearby Carolina Tiger Rescue, something we’d been wanting
to do for awhile. It was a pretty day and the animals were gorgeous.
They call the tiger on the left Lucky. The tiger on the right is
Bob. See more on this page: CTR Tour
HALLOWEEN
GARDEN
Bob dressed the
garden up like ghosts October 29 because the forecast was for freezing overnight
temperatures.
NOW YOU
SEE IT, NOW YOU DON’T
This is the last
view of our old front porch roof. Stan came out and exposed the truth
behind our existing roof. Oh noes!
Tim got busy with
a pry bar and they took down the old roof and began rebuilding it. While
they were at it, they re-roofed the entire house. You’ll have to wait
until next month to see what they did.
CHANGES
You can make a
world of change with a chainsaw. Lyle came over with Arlo on this fine day
and took down two trees. Bob held the line tight with the tractor to
prevent it from falling on the roofing material that lay in the front yard.
EDIBLE
EARTHSCAPES INAUGURAL RICE SALE
Jeremy and Tami
were the first to arrive at Edible
Earthscapes Inaugural Rice sale. Because of the three pound limit,
they couldn’t resist pretending to get in a bit of a tussle over the highly
nutritious Japanese Koshihikari rice.
COME AND
GET IT
Maggie
helped Haruka with the rice sale. Rachel walked over with Linus for her
share and brought his giraffe, too. We are all very proud of the group
effort that went into growing and harvesting this rice. Each grain
represents the strength of community and independence from big Ag.
A LOVELY
FRIEND
We are happy to
call our newest next door neighbor Maggie a friend. She and Camille have
been cooking fun stuff together once a week and Maggie has thrown her good
energy into the Abundance Foundation, too.
SILLY
NEIGHBORS
Jason and Camille
tried out some fangs they’d brought home from the farmer’s market.
MONEY IN
THE BANK
Three pounds of
beautiful rice fit perfectly in one of our canisters.
THIS MONTH’S QUOTES:
“We need more people who
want to get involved in growing food, and we need to match those people up with
land and get them trained.” – Sandor
Katz
“I believe that the great
Creator has put ores and oil on this earth to give us a breathing spell. As we
exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which is God’s true
storehouse and can never be exhausted. We can learn to synthesize material for
every human need from things that grow.” –
George
Washington Carver 1864 – 1943
As one of the few counties in the
state to actually experience an increase in the number of farms in the past
decade, Chatham is also “growing small farms”. – Debbie
Roos, Chatham County Agricultural Extension Agent
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