Week Two Re-Cap

Hello fellows and followers,

It's been a minute!  As I've mentioned, my computer charger committed suicide.  Luckily, after a bit of eye-lash batting at the Apple store, Operation Blog is back up and running.

Last week was busy times on the farm.  There is always so much to do.  On Wednesday we worked until 9:30 at night planting potatoes!  I have also been making frequent visits to the Forest Grove aquatic center (to go swimming), which means my body is feeling very strong and pretty exhausted most of the time.  On Saturday I had the opportunity to visit Red Pig Tools in Boring, OR for a tool use workshop put on by the North Willamette Women Farmers Network.  I learned a lot about how to correctly use farm tools to save your body from injury and work most efficiently-- important shit.

Had a lovely visit to Portland this weekend.  Spent a great deal of time just walking around SE.  All the flowers (read: roses) are in bloom and the gardens look electric!  I'm sorry I didn't bring my camera.  Nevertheless, there are still plenty of pictures from the last week to keep you entertained.  Enjoy!

It's about time you all met the ducks!  Here are the ducks.  Some of them have names but I do not keep track.  Mainly they wander around the farm eating bugs and slugs.  They stay tightly knit in a pack and quack about all day.  Very cute indeed.  Better yet, they give us eggs!  From the 10 ducks on the farm, we get an average of 1 egg/morning.  These little quacksters turn slugs into delicious food!

This is the beautiful Columbine 

Mmmm mmmm garlic scapes!  These are the delicious "blossoms" of the garlic plant, they are very edible and respond well to a quick sautéing and a dash of salt & pepper.

Paw-Paw the cat paws at the door.

These are just some of our younger peppers in the hoop house awaiting transplant.  Once the nights are a bit warmer they will go in the ground.  Until then they live in here on a heated mat.