One last thanks to last years Wwoofers...

Noel & Angelita

Matt & Luke

Steve and Cooper

Sandy & Danny--b4 and after

All 8 of these young folks helped hugely in creating our present space and place where we are today, and I just want to thank each and every one of them for their contributions in 2012.



I look forward to a great year again.  We're almost full at this point, except for October.  Who knows, perhaps we actually might have chickens and goats by then!

Finally back--Do What You Can Do!

Master Gardeners with a view

Almost 3 weeks after the final Master Gardener class, I am finally blogging again!  

Just in case there is anyone unfamiliar with Master Gardeners, it's a program supported by OSU Extension throughout the state of Oregon in which the university works to reach people who don't have easy access to resources and education available on campus.  It is a way for the university to provide research-based information to the general public at very little expense as it counts on folks who take the Master Gardener Program at our Curry County Extension Agency to volunteer in various ways.

 At least the daffodils look good!

So, yes, there is a lot of time that has been focused on the MG program this winter, and I am 

(: hopefully :) going to be getting back to some norm of reporting things on the 'stead a bit more regularly in the future...

This winter was largely spent on putting things back in order after being away for over 6 years and making the place more livable--which will be great for all of the Wwoofers who make their way through over the next few months.

One of the biggest tasks re the garden was/is finishing the deer fence.  This was especially important--and troublesome, in that it had not been completed as one of the tasks that I WAS on top of was the installation of the orchard, which was planted up in late January when I was able to pick up the trees and put them in while they were dormant.  All it would have taken was one over-zealous deer (NOT to mention the lone elk we saw creeping down the slope next to our home one day that was tentatively checking out all of my brassicas !).

SO, the fence is almost in and hopefully I'll be sincerely back to gardening next week again.  What that will entail is adding lots of lime, and the WEEDING!  Let's keep that to dreams (or is it nightmares???) until it actually occurs.

But just like the 3rd grade teacher from Tennessee told me before my first year of teaching years ago: "Do what you can do"...because what else can you do?