In late April, we had our first Wwoofer (World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms intern) stay with us for a week. He was a photographer from France, named Antione Bruy, checking out people living off the grid in the U.S. I don't have a photo of him but he has a lot of us! Antione helped Linc pour a foundation for our solar panel pole mount and installed some of the new garden fence. Then, in early May, our second Wwoofer, Gerald arrived from Denver in his electric Fiat (it took him 2 days and for stops for charging to get here over the passes). Here's Gerald on his second day, getting ready to ride the backhoe with Linc a few miles up a jeep road to a friend's property to excavate for a house foundation, mountain bikes for the trip back down in case we needed to leave the backhoe there overnight.
That backhoe has turned out to be very useful here. We found the loader was the perfect thing for tensioning new fencing.
The hoophouse greens came back to life after semi dormancy all winter, most of them starting to flower, but still providing plenty of greens and scallions for early spring salads. Everything on the farm looked better this year, between the added help from interns Antione and Gerald, and from a day in late April when our neighbor Dev showed up with about 10 students from his Adventure Semester program. In a few hours, they planted several potato beds, weeded and mulched the hoophouse (below), and fired up our cob pizza oven and had a pizza party.
May is one of the most colorful months here at Frugalbundance, and as always, we never tire of the view of the North Fork Valley below and the West Elk Mountains on the other side. It never looks the same and it's always interesting when you step outside and look.
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