By Andrew Haupt
I worked like a dog this weekend and loved it. Friday Tom from Lumbercycle came up and we loaded up his trailer with manzanita scraps from our thinning for him to take to the macaw exhibit at the zoo. Then Jess Bombar and Cory Knott came up and we got to work on the meadow garden, debarking the locust posts, marking out the boundaries, mowing, and setting posts.
Saturday marked the second to last week of farm school at Wild Willow. Paul Maschka, our instructor, brought some Egyptian walking onions, which I planted as soon as we got home. I’m excited about these, as they’re a perennial onion that more or less propagates itself. We also loaded the truck with a bunch of pew ends from Lumbercycle’s dismantling of the inside of St. Paul’s Cathedral, which I’m planning to use in the construction of the goat shed. The sacrilegious contrast between a goat shed (ever heard of Baphomet?) and a church delights me to no end.
Sunday I blasted through the last row of fence posts for the garden and borrowed our neighbor Mary and Jack’s old rototiller to begin prepping the ground in the area. They weren’t sure if it worked, so I was pleasantly surprised when I got it running and knocked out an initial pass of the entire area. It’s hard work, and I missed a few patches, but it feels great to have a significant part of this under my belt.
