A little sunflower poetry
Posted on July 6, 2009 - Filed Under news | 2 Comments
A perfect beauty of a sunflower! a perfect excellent lovely sunflower existence! a sweet natural eye to the new hip moon, woke up alive and excited grasping in the sunset shadow sunrise golden monthly breeze.
Excerpt from Sunflower Sutra, Allen Ginsberg
You’re expected to see only the top,where sky scrambles bloom, and not the spindly leg, hairy, [...]
Read More..>>A Farmers Progress…and/or lack thereof
Posted on July 4, 2009 - Filed Under news | Leave a Comment
Happy July 4th! Here’s a rundown of what’s happening:
Garden overgrown with weeds…check! I mean really overgrown with weeds. That’s what happens when you take a 2 week vacation. That’s why real farmers don’t take vacations until winter.
Collected, so far, 7 super nice, big, ripe tomatoes (eaten 4, yum); several assorted yellow cherry tomatoes; oh so [...]
Peep
Posted on July 4, 2009 - Filed Under animals, building, chicken feed, chickens, farm maintenance, news, tractor | 1 Comment
Meet the newest members of our brood. Finally, new chickens! 36 35 34 (eeks, one didn’t get out of the way of the waterer in time and one was pecked to death. I’ll spare you the gory details) of varying breeds: mostly Americanas mixed with Rhode Island Reds and Goldens. [...]
Read More..>>Pie for the soul
Posted on June 20, 2007 - Filed Under about us, news, prayer | Leave a Comment
Today I woke up in a very bad mood. I think the mood was set when I slept through the radio alarm which is tuned to public radio. While I was attempting to get another 20 minutes of peaceful sleep, my brain was being bombarded by disturbing messages like “more killed in Iraq,” [...]
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