more vermont

Still farming in southern Vermont.

Most of our days start with breakfast around 8:30 leading to a morning meeting at 9ish. At the meeting we figure out what everyone is doing for the day and discuss upcoming projects. Maggie usually ends up working in the kitchen (cooking for the winter market or a retreat) and I do something outside (harvesting, working in the greenhouses, fix-up projects). This usually goes until around 1 when we have lunch for an hour and then have a meeting about afternoon work. That work goes until 5 or 6 and then goes into dinner prep. We have dinner and then clean up the dishes.

And that's what our days here look like. We'll be here for about 2 more weeks before we head to upstate new york to work-exchange at the buddhist meditation community.

Then the schedule changes a little bit because some local band from Vermont announced a fall tour and we're going to try to go to as many shows as possible. We're still working on tickets for that extravaganza of the rock and roll.

Vermont is unlike any other state I've ever visited. It's purposely rural, but doesn't have many of the negative aspects of rural life that I've come to recognize from growing up in the south. We'd kind of like to move here... but negative 20.