Prom, visitors and visits.

We've started getting visitors! in the last week Steve stopped by and worked with us for a morning and Katie's parents came by for the weekend. Always a good time. Williamstown isn't packed with that many folks my age, so I have been looking forward to the North Adams' 20-something prom for awhile. Saturday I finished chores, showered and dressed, and went over to Emily's apartment for a barbecue. She's a farmmember, and she introduced me to loads of cool folks at the prom. they had dancing, they had some outstanding outfits, they had 80's music, and they had a signature drink: the "razz-ma-tazz". weeha. I took some before and after pictures (Gabriella voted for me wearing the brown dress, but I ended up wearing the black one, so I decided I'd at least take the requisite prom picture with the chicken in the brown one).


















We've been going on a lot of CRAFT visits to other
farms in the area. the last two weeks have been amazing farms to see - side hill farm in ashfield (featured in Barbara Kingsolver's book "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle") and then Natural Roots. The Side Hill apprentices built themselves this amazing little house for $5000 last year!

Natural Roots was really cool to see because they're a horse-powered farm. They pull plows and cultivators with teams if up to four horses, and they showed us their haying equipment too. Apparently, they get a lot of their equipment in from Amish communities in Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Meanwhile, we've gone through a week and a half of distribution, so Jenna, our baker, has been here and our farm team is complete! from left to right (standing) is Katie, Geoff, Melissa, Bridget, Micah and Don and down below is me, Jenna and Gabriella. Jenna's son Evan comes to help on the farm a lot too.