Liza and I left San Francisco at the beginning of October and have been working at Oz Farm in Point Arena, Mendocino County CA for the last 6 weeks, where there is basically no internet access, so I'm writing from the library in town. It is extremely beautiful up here and after my first brief reluctant jaunt to the city it almost felt like coming home once i reached the coast and started wending my way north. I don't think there's any danger of me staying, though. In two weeks we grab the train eastward.
To paraphrase a friend, it's been all that we'd hoped for and more. There are so many things that would take probably years to figure out that can be gleaned from a few weeks on a working farm. Things like, what is the quality threshold for different markets, and how to prepare produce for them? Though we won't be ready for production at RJP for a while, we can hit the ground running when we do.
Some assorted highlights so far:
Abalone diving
Lessons in roadkill recovery and hide tanning
Wooden and wood-fired hot tub
Virtually unlimited bolete mushrooms
Widespread inspiration, difficult to distill.
Pictures later
Friday, November 20, 2009
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