well i'm at the first checkpoint, where i'll be until the first week of december. this is a three month internship at Green String Farm, near Petaluma, CA. the experience for me here has been immersive and intense. i've been trying to practice certain things like making compost, planting, and maintaining the garden by weeding and watering appropriately. i've been focusing a lot of time on drying herbs, fruits, and peppers. the foods i mostly dry in the earth oven when it cools to a lower temp after baking. also i've been cooking a lot and trying to use the bountiful produce here in enjoyable ways. i've made a couple nice batches of pesto, lots of pasta sauce, and hearty vegetable soups with chicken stock. we got a bunch of surplus roosters from our instructor's son and have been feeding them and consuming them.
today during our afternoon lesson, which we have every weekday, we piled in two big pickup trucks and went up to this spring that is up on the small mountain above the vineyards that are owned by the company that owns Green String. we are installing a solar-powered pump in order to have access to the water. we are very fortunate to have this spring near us, and i hope i get to drink from it in this last month here.
more details as i have the time...
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