Tamarack Farm (the physical veggie-pumping part) is already filling our bellies! We’ve been enjoying deliciously prepared meals full of garden vegetables (and one delicious fruit): broccoli, radishes, garlic scapes, swiss chard, lettuce and strawberries! We’re drinking milk from our own cows, pasteurized in the dairy barn and carried (literally) to our camp’s kitchen. Meal after meal, we are preparing delicious, nutritious, and as-local-as-it-gets food.
It has been raining a lot, nearly every single day, but spirits are high. Saturday morning the entire camp went to the garden to give our crops some breathing and growing room. Our “All-Camp Weed” was hugely successful. The rows look wonderful and it felt so good to get hands and toes dirty and to get to know new people while working en masse. It might be cliche but it is certainly true that many hands make for light work. Postum House is Tamarack Farm’s version of a variety/talent show. We are a camp full of musical, dancing, funny, witty, entertaining campers and staff. Awesome to see the talents of those you live with shining and on display as we did on Saturday night.
And Sunday the Sun shone! All day long! All in all we’re settling nicely into the rhythm of life at TF. We rise early, some of us tend to the animals while others tidy up. A bread crew has been baking fresh, hot bread for us daily. We share silence amidst the beauty and bird calls of nature in our outdoor circle for Silent Meeting. We sing. We get to work in the morning, out in the garden, in the woodshop, in the kitchen. And in the afternoons we do everything from exploring the lake by canoe to building kinetic sculptures with what some might call ‘junk.’ All Farm and Wilderness camps celebrated Interdependence Day Tuesday afternoon. Tamarack Farm wowed the assembled with our song and outrageous costumery.
We are off to a good start building a cupola and barn doors for the new Livestock Barn. The contractors raised the walls this week. And tonight (Thursday) we are all going to a Naming Ceremony at Flying Cloud.
Summer is roaring off to a good start and we will soon be posting detailed schedule for Visiting Day (July 25 mid-morning to 9:30 pm)
-Leonora
