So, I've finally made it to the farm. I've been there for 4 days now, and it has been great so far. I'm tenting out under a sweet tree right next to the rasberry bushes that I can freely pick and eat from. I share a community kitchen with 5 other people who are living on the farm actually all together there are 8 people living on the farm. It is a crazy mix of people but for the most part we seem to be getting along.
My experience on the farm is different than what I expected. I spend the morning helping out on the farm: weeding the tomato plants, fertilizing with fish meal (my stuff now smells like fish), working the tractor etc. My afternoons however are spent in a class type setting. We sit on his porch and he lectures and gives me lots of books to read and look at. It is great because I can basically ask him anything I want about farming, and he is sort of forming a base for my knowledge about farms and how they operate.
The pace of farm life seems very different. Just coming into town the world seems to move much faster. On the farm there are always things that need to be done, but there doesn't seem to be sense of urgency, maybe just a sense of tiredness. I don't know. I've only been there for a bit, but so far so good.
I hope everyone continues to have amazing life adventures.
4 comments:
Katy I must have missed something,
what's "the farm" and who is "he"? where are you? haha sorry if these questions reveal my slow uptake, but I'm confused and interested....
Sorry, I totally left that out. I'm now tenting/living on a farm near corvallis. I am apprenticing with a farmer there. He is teaching me the basics of farming and how to organize people around supporting food and farming in Oregon. It is so sweet. I am digging the farm life.
Are you going to be around Willamette next semester?
I'm going to be in Oaxaca for the fall, but I will be back in the spring. That sunrise photo is gorgeous.
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