Catching up!

1. Claire Dishman whittling at Community Garden. 2. Paula and Steve Green grow food year round in their home garden.

3. The Jefferey's Straw Bale Greenhouse is being completed. 4. Josh talks compost at one of the Monticello farms.

5. Steve Darland, Viniculturist in the Aging room on the farm. Excellent Balsalmic Vinegar!

The farm has been busy lately, but we did do a tour of Organic farms in the area that was offered last week by The Bountiful Alliance (Sandi is on this board). We viewed gardens and farms from TorC and Monticello.

Biggest learned lesson, their farms look so great because 1. they do it full time and 2. they have been doing it full time for years. My favorite parts were the straw bale greenhouse at the Jeffrey's farm, the lessons on Balsamic Vinegar at the Old Monticello Farms, the hard work evident from all the volunteers at TBA's 4th Street Community Garden and the fact that one of the farms had been a hippie colony in the 70s.