The nitty-gritty, 411, scoop, or in Nicholas Grant's (Farm CSA intern) words "Haps":
Saturday's farm stand will feature a Melonpalooza. Come out and enjoy farm melon tastings and garden tours.
Last night's movie in the park, hosted by the city of Waco, was slightly thwarted by the heavy rainstorm 2 hours before. Peter and Kristine made a beautiful display of fair trade education, chocolate covered frozen bananas, zucchini brownies, iced coffee, and iced tea (all made with fiar trade and organic products). Since we have many many banana left over, we will be sealing them until Farm Day. So make sure you come.
Next Saturday night will be our first ever Farm Fundraising Dinner. Chris Becker, our chef in waiting, received his stylish chef's jacket today in the mail. Everyone is prepped and still curious about how to be suave and professional. Hopefully we will have picture and an update of the dinner, featuring Wanaka: the bountiful heifer turned beef.
The dairy goat, moms and kids are back out in pasture thanks to the abundance of rain the past week which brought new life into the previously foraged sorghum sudan fields.
Big Mama, the oldest, most ornery goat, turned in her badge a few weeks ago. She made a nice sausage.
About a month and a half ago a friend of the Coles generously donated young Boer goats. Although their horns are a tricky nuisance (they get stuck in the fences everyday), we will enjoy some delicious meat sometime in the future.
A welcome to our first new volunteer in two months. Seth Horton moved from North Carolina; he jumped right in to work Monday morning.
Gracie was quarantined earlier this week, so she has a lonely bleat. Thankfully she gets to join her milking sisters very soon.
A generous businessman in town is leasing-donating a plot of land to the farm to set up an urban garden on Elm Street in Waco. The ground is not broken yet, but we are very excited to move further into the city to bring green things.
The duplex is scheduled to be sheetrocked and drywalled early next week. Hopefully the Coles and Hesses can move in sometime September.
Turkeys are coming in a month or two. Farm talk is already circulating about the hideous facial features of the previous year's turkeys.
Sadly enough, one of the most beloved interns moved away last Saturday to McAllen, Texas where he will be working with John Gardner, a former farmee, gardening at a school and probably doing many other unforeseeable things. We partied and said our goodbyes to Will Summers. The dorm is not the same; neither is the farm. This is how things go here though; people leave, people come, animals leave (slightly a more violent process), animals come (a much more sentimental process), the land changes every day, every season, every year. The constant is in change. Ah, the beautiful irony.
Cheers and shimmies and shakes,
Melyssa
Caption: Will holding the honey frame, surrounded by bees, during the honey harvest.
Photo by: Amanda Becker.
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