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| Kristen's Soil Lab |
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| Collecting soil samples |
 Soil testing... |
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| Gorgeous morning. |
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| Seedlings. My wards. Please don't die! |
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| Tornado warning for most of the day... |
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| Farm walk with Kenneth |
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| The village blacksmith |
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| Popcorn? "DIRT" movie night |
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| David working hard on the Edible Landscape |
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| Home Sweet Home |
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| *Insert: The history of apple cider* |
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| Teamwork |
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| Theme of today's lunch: Terroir "the taste of the place" in this case local apples, maple syrup, goat chevre, bread and of course, eggs. |
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| Even better than it looks. No words to describe this. |
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| Helping to weed, many hands... |
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| Getting a tour of Greg Manchester's maple sugaring operation. |
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| RAFFL dinner |
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| BEST. |
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| I CANNOT WAIT TO TRY TO MAKE THIS. Simple, and delicious. |
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| Foxtail Lilies - |
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| Foxglove - digitalis, reseeds itself each year. |
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| Lady's Mantle |
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| One of MANY peony varieties at Alice's |
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| Astilbe |
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| Columbine- *shade-loving |
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| "Flowers are nature laughing." -Kristine |
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| Something from the allium family, purple globe flower |
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| The Peony-mobile |
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| Baptista- a Legume |
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| Verbascum |
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| Neat and efficient bed layout, something to keep in mind. |
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| Kolkwitzia "Beauty Bush" Visually stunning, VERY fragrant. |
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| Corn being planted in a intensively spaced French technique, mounded 3 times over course of growth. (for stabilization). |
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| Field daisy of some sort. |
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| Super-insulated freezer set-up. Empty bottles freeze in winter, thaw very slowly inside during rest of year. |
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| Baby Goats!!!! |
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| Compost water heater. The "Jean Pain Method", if large enough, biogas opportunities exist. |
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| Hugelbeet beds, stuffed with woody branches/logs. |
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| Greenhouse dug into hillside, and rice seedlings! |
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| Vegetable curry followed by apple-crisp. Yay! |
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