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Fire Cube = Success!

So incredibly awesome! We all got together to have an inaugural fire and enjoy some s'mores.

Since it sits a few feet above the ground, we got to watch the fire burn from underneath. Very cool and a unique view.

I'm so happy with how it turned out and the fact that so many of our farm community came to help celebrate. I can't wait for many more nights around the old cube, especially as the weather starts to get colder and the nights a bit darker.

There were some pretty awesome things that worked out well that I hadn't planned (or... I mean, I did...). Such as, getting to watch the fire from underneath, the perfect height at which to roast a marshmallow, the fact that it's raised off the ground so the smoke doesn't get in your eyes and the light shining through the pumpkin is orange. So perfect, if I say so myself.

We Made a Haystack!

Isn't it great? We built a round frame about four feet high and piled hay on while we walked around in circles to tamp it down. It grew and grew throughout the afternoon as we put more on. Once we had gotten it as big as we needed it, we raked the outside so that water would shed off, instead of trickling inside and rotting the hay. A couple of inches of the outside will be lost to sun bleaching and rot, but inside it'll be nice and green for those snowy winter months!

My Lovely Project

You know you love your project when you end up standing over it with a sledge hammer.

I was really just trying to straighten out all the panels that got warped by heat while I was cutting them. I finished welding them together and I'll post picture soon of the inaugural fire!

This Student Farmer Went to Market

We're taking turns each week attending the Belmont Farmer's Market and Thursday was my chance! I had a great time selling all our produce and hanging out with Kim, the staff member who came with me. We sold out of almost everything and I loved getting to meet all the people eating our food. We also got to meet ButterGirl, the lovely woman in the stand next to us who bakes cookies and brownies from her home and sells them in markets and wholesale around Belmont and Somerville. So delicious and inspiring as a business model.

I Love You

Please be my friend, fluffy chicks who will soon lay us delicious eggs. I love you.

I Just Couldn't Make This Up

The scene? The home garden on Monday afternoon as I obsessed about when the tomatoes would ripen.

What happened? A number of buzzards were circling over the field and Emily, Sophia and Caitlin went to check it out. Theo and I stayed behind to keep working. A few minutes later, dark shapes flew overhead and Theo told me to duck. I heard a few wet splats and when I looked up, the buzzards had dropped meat all around us.

Definitely one of the stranger experiences of my life as I stood there with chunks of meat next to me in the grass. I'm happy that not only did the meat not hit us or any of the crops around us, but that I had someone to share the moment with. Otherwise, I probably wouldn't have been able to believe it actually happened.