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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Well we are experiencing a return to winter today and apparently for the next few...5-11 deg C, rain, mist, icy winds. What this means is that everything at the farm, other than the garlic, is in a state of 'suspended animation' until warmth and sunlight return. Another opportunity to practice patience and respect for Nature :).

We try to spend such days doing indoor jobs such as in the poly tunnels, which is where Tim is today, sowing more vegie seeds to raise our seedlings and I am obviously in the office taking care of that side of things.


Another aspect of Mother Nature...

Some other aspects of farm life keep moving along no matter the weather and yesterday the Pigs Will Fly community blog published their latest e-newsletter, which included a profile on us called Passionate Re-localisers Selling Organic Gourmet Garlic Online . 

We have been following PWF for a couple of years now and have shared them with many people and now have them listed on our 'favourites' page. PWF is a down to earth 'can do' community blog that exists to share information and resources to help concerned community workers and small business to as they describe it "balance the ’sustainability quadruple bottom line’ of socio-cultural, economic, environmental and governance elements that we deal with on a daily basis". If you hadn't already discovered PWF, we hope you find this link of interest.

BTW, the new tomato seedling count is into the hundreds now, so I'll desist from an ongoing update, perhaps until they're 'grown up' and ready for the field?

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