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.
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