food to ground

two days of planting, and the job is done.  food in the ground, and it feels fantastic.  just shy of four thousand baby plants.  hand to baby, baby to earth, water to join.  thanks to the help of our awesome volunteers, the work was a pleasure.  

 

thankfully, we weren't the only one hard at work:

off to savannah now for two days of learning and pleasure at the georgia organics conference.  epic keynote speaker, vandana shiva, tops it off tomorrow night.  catch you on the flip side.   

burning that midnig...err, eight pm, oil

either our hoop house is about to take off, and return back to its home planet, or everything is totally fine, and the chicks are all good.

in perfect formation, a few foot wide circle beneath the lights, sleeping soundly.  it's dropping down to freezing tonight--thirty two--so working late planting beets turned out to be a hidden blessing as i was given the easy chance to check the birds well after dark.  had they been piled up on top of each other, reaching for the lamps, i would have known they were too cold.  scattered far and wide, too hot.  wide circle--that's the money spot.

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