As you can see, I have not posted recently. This does not mean my garden is not still growing, though. Indeed, we expand every year!
In 2011, we plowed a new section of land, about 100 x 40 feet, and then covered it under a HUGE tarp for the winter. End result? Easy to sift soil, mostly dried out, with a light dusting of easily uprooted weeds...
The following Spring of 2012, we invited new friends from the Occupy Movement of Seattle to come out for a day on the farm...and in two such days, the land was tilled, shaped, and planted! A huge harvest came of that season, with over a dozen families sharing in the many months of harvest.
This Spring, we are down to three families...and my efforts to finish my first novel leave me with only a single day's worth of gardening time per week. We meet on Wednesdays for six hours of communal gardening, and the first harvest of the season has already begun!
Wildly growing greens, a final burst of Spring Broccoli, radishes and last year's carrots, beets and their leaves, kale and chard, leeks and onion greens...fresh, new cilantro and parsley...yum! Of course, hundreds of pounds of strawberries are on their way, the plums are small, green, and hard on the trees...our cherries and apples are covered in blossoms, and the berry bushes...oh my! The Goumi berry crop will be huge this year...as well with currants and gooseberries and blueberries, raspberries, and thornless blackberries!
Of course, we still have many lovely chickens...including our "house chicken," who spent five weeks coming into our home every morning to lay her eggs, then three weeks sitting on them (and going out on her own each day to poop!), and over the past night and day...she has successfully hatched eight chicks!
BUT...why am I not posting photos and making regular posts? The simple answer is that I have two new projects on my plate, and I think you may find them interesting.
In fact, I have two new blogs:
vaccinesandbeyond.blogspot.com
marchtwisdale.blogspot.com
(1) After several years of polarizing debates about improving our community health through "increased vaccinations alone," a close friend of mine and I decided to tackle this complex issue head on. We now have a 12-month newspaper series that is being published in The Loop, on Vashon Island. If you'd like to hear a balanced, respectful, curious and questioning viewpoint on the issues of "community health," you'll enjoy our blog. We post our monthly series and other "support material" for people around the world to learn from and all are invited to the discussion @ Vaccines & Beyond
(2) My second blog is designed to highlight and support my basic life-platform: inspiring social change, one day at a time, one person at a time. To achieve this goal, I do many things. My farm is one way in which I have positively impacted people from teaching them to feeding them. My lifestyle, as we homeschool our children and hope to raise aware and enlightened individuals is another. Then, you have my new RADIO SHOW, which is scheduled to come out in August. And, of course...there is my novel, The Ghost Lords. It is through this work that I discovered the "power of fiction" to change people where it matters most. In their hearts. And so, you are invited to join me in this journey at my second blog, Inspiring Social Change Through Fiction.
I hope that every day of your life,
you hold onto your faith in the goodness
present in every man, woman, and child.
A hidden gem is not lost...it simply needs to
be regained...found again. And, only by
seeking, do we have a chance to do so.
Sincerely,
March Twisdale
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