What Are We Doing?

Happily, our little macbook has been resurrected and we now have a connection to the real world.  

Hello.

Now, what are we doing, exactly?  What does a day in our yurt life look like?  What does it look like to farm*?  

There are a bazillion** things that need to be accomplished in a week, all varying as the season progresses.  So it's actually quite difficult to list what we do in a typical day. However, all of our activities seem to fall under the three following categories: cultivating the soil, planting, and harvesting.  This sounds simple.  It actually isn't at all.  There are so many variables and so many ways that a plant can either succeed magnificently or fail, utterly miserably.  Fortunately, Rebecca and Louisa definitely know what they are doing and the succeeding magnificently part means that what we harvest is far beyond the absolute most delicious things from the ground either of us have ever tasted.  Have you tried Persephone's purple sprouting broccoli?  Or the spinach?  If not, we cry for your inexperience...

We'll tell you more in upcoming posts...  About loving chickens; stacking functions***; how to decorate a yurt; nettle queens; why Dana's banned from any social gatherings; the value of crows; Brian's ability to site Bill Simmons, Nietzche, and Tupac within a two minute span; and more!  

brian and dana at our first farmers market!!!!!  

(check us out saturdays on bainbridge island --- we're there alternating saturdays from 9:00 - 1:00 ---- drop us an e-mail if you think you might be on the island for the market!!!)

brian, farding*

dana, with iphone, tea and porridge in the yurt ---- all is right with the world...

brian with our beloved, warrior macbook in sunny 32 degree weather a few months ago, at the one location where there is a really strong wireless connection 

brian (simmons) and val, our fellow apprentices

rom, the resident peacock

keely, the wonder dog

*To be more specific --- and honest ---- our current skill set puts us somewhere between farming and gardening.  Otherwise known as "farding."  We are humble, aspiring farmers who fard.  A lot.

** "Bazillion" appears to be a technical term on the farm.  

*** Permaculture language!!!