Hmm, I feel like putting some pictures up but I haven't taken any photos since being here except for a few botched attempts at catching the fireflies at night. This really is an amazingly beautiful farm. It's 200 acres with beautiful small pasture fields and lots and lots of trees and really nice old barns and river and pond. We just came back from swimming in the pond as the day was hot and humid. Jeff has been baking for the last 2 weeks, tending the fire in the oven, mixing and shaping dough and throwing it in and out of the oven. I've been milking cows and making cheese and hanging. The most pleasurable part of the day might be walking down this tree-lined road to close in the chickens for the night in the dusk as the fireflies sparkle and light up the fields like little twinkling stars. I love fireflies more than most things. They're the best thing of all time I think. And on this beautiful farm, they make it really magical.
Another cool thing has been getting to know Juan, an Ecuadorian farmer and farm educator who is here through the MESA program on exchange. He's incredibly knowledgeable about farming in Ecuador and all over and we've been having fun swapping farm stories from our different countries. It's really interesting to hear about what's happening in Ecuador because he is trying to promote sustainable farming there and it's just such a different situation.
Jeff and I get more excited about our own farm every day all the different things we want to do and grow and try. Cows and fruit trees and heirloom beans. Electric tractors and woks in the kitchen. The list can be endless.