oh how time passes.   The first market was Saturday; our first harvest day was Friday.  At first sunlight (somewhere around 5:00 a.m., we began the harvesting in the greenhouses– with greens of broccolis and cabbages and kohlrabis, and arugula and lettuces for mesclun mixes and lettuces heads and beets, and in the field we harvested [...]

oh how time passes.   The first market was Saturday; our first harvest day was Friday.  At first sunlight (somewhere around 5:00 a.m., we began the harvesting in the greenhouses– with greens of broccolis and cabbages and kohlrabis, and arugula and lettuces for mesclun mixes and lettuces heads and beets, and in the field we harvested [...]

the electrical storm out of doors has busted the electricity in the trailer (the place we call home). oh puppies and daniel and rebekah, what a dark night we will have. We have sought out a few candles, yet our hearty Mexico flashlight has dead batteries and we need the electric to charge them. Today [...]

two weeks on the farm! two weeks on the farm! working.  living.  walking.  up steep hills.  across a stream.  warm greenhouses.  rain.  transplanting.  planting. The puppies arrived a little over a week ago.  And I am in the process of learning to live here with them.  They are no longer ‘too skinny’ as everyone once [...]

We leave for the farm tomorrow morning! hooray hooray, –  I am feeling excited, fearful…I definitely am curious. One note:  our internet access may be sporadic, so if interested please continue to check the blog, as we will be posting when possible or necessary.!! onward as we harvest life!

I think the babies are asleep.  I hope the same for me as well in the coming hour.  slash I am experiencing some anxiety.  Tomorrow the puppies go for an operation.  Tunas will be neutered; Nata and Tomato will be spayed.  I am feeling fearful.  I am questioning the necessity of this procedure, while also [...]

Life continues.  I question the validity in my writing.  I question if people will be interested.  I trust in the interest or disinterest in anyone who may or may not read this blog now that I am no longer in Mexico. Daniel and I are in Michigan.  We are visiting my parents.  We have met [...]

written three or four days past: as we ready ourselves to say hasta…cuando sea, I am filled with feelings. oh life and processes. I watched Daniel stand outside this afternoon. He was, in my perception, quietly contemplative. I felt sad because I thought this way of being indicated his own sadness, to leave his dream– [...]

PeePee Mohawk died this morning.  We thought she had befriended her injuries and would survive.  She was running around with Nails and BubbleMonster and her mama, learning how to peck and bathe in the dirt, until this morning.  Her leg looked to me a bit out of alignment, still a little red, yet she was [...]

¡we got three new chicks! toast to them: peepeeMohawk, nails, and bubbleMonster. hooray, hooray. +++++++++++but oh no, +++the puppies are biting chickens. +++++++++++++++++the chickens are eating chickies. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++the chickies, are being eaten by ants. the chickens are eating chickies? on the day after the chicks were hatched, we set out to build them a special [...]