since june, one of my lifelong dreams has come true! i work on a beautiful organic farm, as a volunteer, at least three days a week. it's 5 miles up the road from my home, up road 99. pacific star gardens, owned by robert and deb ramming, 40 acres of my idea of heaven, plus 400 turkeys, birds, chickens, and ducks. for half a year now, with lots of instruction and patience on the part of robert and deb, i've learned to plant and harvest all kinds of vegetables (some i had never even seen before), i've been pitching straw, shoveling bird shit, pulling up drip tape, wheelbarrowing pumpkins and butternut squash, transplanting strawberry daughters, shucking corn, weeding, and watched the butchering of birds for thanksgiving. most fun of all, i get to drive the tractor! and now i've got muscles! and i'm happier than i have ever been.
i hope to keep working on the farm for as many years as robert and deb will let me! i can't thank them enough - and their son adam, and my volunteer friends robb, ashley, tarra, pouya, brian, DD.
love and vegetables!!
xoxox
