In the Land of Darwin's Finches and Blue-Footed Boobies

In two day's time Tamara and I will be mid-flight with her family to snorkel, hike, and camp the Galapagos Islands.  We'll be returning around the 15th of February to boxes packed with seeds from High Mowing and Seed Savers Exchange.  Within a few days we will get some of our early transplants going under heat lamps and on windowsills and it won't be long until the ground is ready.  We will also be ordering some apple and plum trees to add to our small collection of older trees as well as some new raspberry and blueberry plants from St. Lawerence Nurseries, who specialize in Northern Climate varietals.  Needless to say we are very excited for both our vacation and the coming spring.

To all our followers out there in cyberspace and  also those who occasionally occupy our collective physical space, I look forward to returning refreshed with some cool pictures to share.  But mostly I am looking forward to getting our farming and homesteading project truly underway.  It is why we relocated to the Finger Lakes and we are both overwhelmingly excited to sow loud - get it?

I will leave you with a few pictures of food and our preparations for vacation.  Talk at you all in a few weeks.  Be well.

Tamara reading to Mali about the Galapagos - we want her to understand why we are abandoning her for two weeks

egg fried in chili topping cheddar stuffed flatbread

looking forward to some time off from this daily trudge out to the pigs

breakfast burritos with some ass-kicking Brooklyn Salsa we bought at the NOFA-NY conference trade show

The Civil War

The Martin Van Buren

The 12 Year Old

There was an old man with a beard 

Who said:  "It was just as I feared!

    Two owls and hen,

    Four larks and a wren 

Have all built their nests in my beard."

Edward Lear