Weekend #1
The first weekend was quite quiet. It seems strange that the absence of just a couple of us made the house feel so much emptier. During the week the house is a teeming hub of staff, stufas, middle school students, teachers, visitors, etc. Over the weekend people take day trips or go to visit family, the staff is off site and the whole place is calm. Saturday was especially quiet. I woke up around 7:30 and took full advantage of the opportunity to lounge in bed. When I got to the farm house I added my laundry basket to the rather long line of other baskets and steeped a cup of PG tips tea. Breakfast was a fabulous morning pizza put together by one of the stufas on weekend chores (in penance for jumping the laundry line) made from fresh veggies, focacia, and farm eggs. I then read our assigned chapters in Eliot Coleman's The New Organic Grower. Each weekend a pair of stufas is responsible for chores. This primarily means caring for the...