Wild Meadows Farm

Wild Meadows is a farm run by Kim and Joel. They grow a lot of veggies and sell them. Some of the things that are growing right now are tatsoie, lettuce, tomato, leeks, fennel, peppers and lots lots more. Everything is certified organic. When we first got here we spent a lot of time "double digging" the beds in the solar passive greenhouse (high tunell) to prepare them for planting. That was in Febuary. Double digging is a good way to get nice loose soil and remove the rocks. I dont feel like explaining it though.
The high tunell is all planted now so we have been working on another section of garden. At this garden there are 30 100 square foot gardens. All the soil was turned by us, not machines. They are big on people power here. I made sure to bring up the point that there has to be a balance between doing repetive work like turning soil and more interesting thought provoking work. Kim and Joel agreed. Every day we start work at 6 and work till 8. We eat breakfast and then work 9 to 12. Then we have the rest of the day off.
There are 6 people total on the farm. Kim and Joel, Michelle and I, and Travis and Jen. Travis and Jen are the other interns. They'll be here until the rest of the growing season. Next year there moving onto their own farm so they wanted to do an internship here to get a good feel for things. Michelle and I like them a lot.
There is a dog here named Praire. They feed her vegan dog food and she seems really healthy. Although she does hunt a little bit.
There is a cat name Alice. She always has some animal in her mouth and really eats here cat food because she is stuffed with chipmunk, rabbit, or whatever else she found that day.

The land here is beautiful and I'm very happy and grateful to be here.

We're in pensylvania now

Looking at my last entry which was just 3 pictures I realize that my last entry was at Heathcote community in Maryland in February. Bob tought us how to tile a bathroom floor, and Michelle made a beautiful mosaic. We worked 20 hours a week at the community in exchange for board and a few hours a week with Nick at his pottery shop in exchange for food. Nick tried to teach my how to spin on the wheel but it was hard for me to get the hang of it. Michelle however really knows what shes doing. We spent 6 weeks at the community.

I'll tell you how I got to where I am now.

We got in touch with a farm in Bedford county PA called Goodness Grows and we planned to spend 2 weeks there. We left Heathcote and drove about 3 hours west into south central PA. When we got to the farm it just didn't feel right from the beginning. The people seemed nice and all but something was off. They grow veggies there but also butcher animals and sell the meat. We spent the night there and in the morning we told them we had to leave. We went on the computer and contacted many, many farms to see if we could go there . After a lot of people saying they didn't have space for us or whatever we talked to Mandi from Horn O Plenty farm. She also said she didn't have space but recommended us to Kim and Joel at Wild Meadows Farm. We called Kim up right away and asked if we could do a work trade at her farm because things just weren't working out where we were. She said she needed to talk it over with her partner Joel and that she would call us later. We both weren't feeling hopeful about this situation. I remember I said something to Michelle like, what if we find a place to go to today and spend the whole growing season there?
We needed a break from searching for a farm so we went in to town for lunch at the Green Harvest. We got a call from Kim, she said she wanted to meet with us to talk things over. It just so happened that she called from Hebrew coffee which is 3 buildings down from where we were.
Michelle and I sat on a bench outside and waited for Kim. I remember her walking towards us with her banjo. Soon after that we were on our way to Wild Meadows Farm where we still are today. That happened in February.

Ill leave it at that for now.