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Week of June 25, 2025: Cassie is picking a lot of flowers, we are eating a lot of tomatoes and peppers. Picked the first fig. Finished up the last of the early cabbage and broccoli in a stir fry. Still fixing fences from the flood, but the end is in sight.
Visitors this week took home eggs, flowers, garlic, tomatoes and peppers (sweet, the hot’s just starting to ripen) along with what they have learned. Cassie did a small stained glass project with a visitor.
Week of June 11, 2025: There is always a blessing in any challenge… Here is the first of what I hope to be a weekly update. We are no longer in drought…. and I have spent the last several mornings fixing fence from the flood damage! Another inch of rain yesterday, 1 to 2 more inches forecast for today. The 1,400 feet of bamboo we planted over a decade ago that has successfully filtered the trash out of the flood waters 3 times…. was overwhelmed by this record flood. We have logs in the fields! Lesson learned, more is not better… very little damage to the 2-wire fences, little more to 3 and 4 wires, and major damage to the 5-wire fence (5 wires was required for the NRCS grant, see the fences in this are on the video). Eating a lot of cabbage, harvested the first tomatoes and peppers and the last of the tart cherries this week. Got a banana too.
