so...i'm not so good at this whole blog thing

Friends. It seems like it was just last week that I sat down to blog, but I checked out my last post today and it was actually about 3 weeks ago...oops! I am sorry guys. I really am because I really want to share about what I am up to here in the mountains of NC! I realized this passed weekend that I have yet to have a weekend when I am here on the farm enjoying a bit of free time since the first week I was here. I have been traveling home and abroad and camping, so time for my blog must be squeezed into weeknights like this...I am really going to try to get better at keep you updated about my doings.

So let's see...the farm is still wonderful of course! Here is a bit of what we have been doing: transplanted crops into the field (like broccoli, lettuce, cauliflower, and second successions of crops previously planted), still working on the new greenhouse, repairing goat fencing and gates, a lot of potting up for our big plant sale in Waynesville last Saturday, hoeing/cultivation, moving row cover, setting up over-head irrigation, tilling up earth in the greenhouses, planted watermelons, planted bell peppers, planted eggplant,harvesting zukes and cukes, thinning turnips and beet, eating yummy beet and turnip greens, and eating delicious wood-oven pizzas!

I have recently fallen in love with the goats! We have become great pals because they have been getting out of their electric fence. You see there was a lot of grass and brush encroaching on the fence so the voltage was low and the goats would just run through. Now even though the grass has been cut and weedwacked they still run right through it getting shocked with 6000 volts! This is sad and exciting at the same time because it means that we will probably be eating some goat soon:)

I made friends with the kind of crazy horse named bud today and petted his soft nose. This is a big step for me because horses have always kind of spooked me out, but bud is just so beautiful!

It has been a great first month and a half...I already don't wanna leave this fall, but am soso excited for the rest of the season. Tomorrow is we give our CSA their first boxes of the season filled with lettuce, radishes, zukes, arugula, spinach, and other spicy greens. I can't wait to tell you how it goes!

peace

Noah