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| Can you spot the chicken running away? |
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| Intern house |
Greetings from the Williams Valley in southern Oregon! I arrived for my five month internship with
Dancing Bear Farm on Saturday and my first full day of work is tomorrow.
So far I’ve been busy settling in to my new home base. On Saturday I went with Steve to Ashland for
some super fun contra dancing. Yesterday
the Farm Corps had a really neat social forestry and natural building class at
White Oak Farm (hopefully a post on them later) and then I got to pick (and
eat!) some delicious strawberries from our little patch on the farm. Today I hope to weed the intern herb garden
and keep looking through our cookbooks for some neat recipe and food
preservation ideas.
I moved back to Oregon from Ohio less than a week ago and it
seems like I’ve skipped spring and gone straight into summer. The weather is fantastic right now, although
it’s supposed to dry up and get really hot eventually.
I don’t have a specific topic for this post, but here’s a
list of initial observations:
- I’m going to be doing a lot of weeding.
- The landscape of southern Oregon is so different from Portland or Wooster. It really is amazing to be here in person (a photo doesn’t do it justice). We’re surrounded by mountains, there are tons of farms, and everything is green.
- I’m looking forward to tapping into the local herb farms, milk stands, and farmers markets. Many farms host interns and I hope to meet lots of people interested in learning more about sustainable agriculture and living. There’s definitely a lot going on here.
- I have never seen so many deer in my life (the only deer I saw in Ohio were dead- roadkill).
- Duck eggs and chevre are delicious.
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| DBF duck eggs and Mama Terra goat cheese |
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| Freshly picked strawberries and greens for intern sustenance |
I'll try to keep regular posts up (with photos) despite limited internet access.
Thanks for reading,
ET
