August 6th, 2009

*Harvested lots of beautiful veggies and fruits (tomatoes are fruit, they are a large berry, the supreme court is wrong in ruling that it be labeled as a vegetable). Bill (another committed volunteer) and I talked about my idea to do some planting for a fall harvest and he volunteered to use his tiller on Monday to tear up some earth for the occasion. Glen was not thrilled about this and said that it was too late to plant, as he had said many times before, but in the end gave some good criticism and advice for me to work with. *I started gathering materials for a worm bin, found a good plastic bin from the garage and filled it with shredded paper from the front desk. Most importantly, I NEED WORMS. *Later on in the evening we went and visited the Hun's Family Garden. This is one of the finest farms I have ever visited in my life as a human being upon this planet earth. It was so amazing because it was the most practical farm for his unique purposes. Paul, the farmer there, explained to us why we never weeds, irrigates, or hires staff or voluteers; because there is not enough time so there is no need to. Simple enough I suppose. They were insane genius farmers, many times Paul told us "Whatever your parents told you to do, we do the opposite." They sure did, for instance, they plant their tomatoes 6 inches apart from eachother whereas modern farming suggests at least 1 foot (their tomatoe plants we at least 10 feet tall with lots of fruit, much bigger than ours), they plant their potatoes in furrows not in mounds like traditional farming (Paul lifted up the straw covering the potatoes and they were just sitting there waiting to be picked, no digging necessary), and they were growing ginger (thats crazy, I have never seen a growing ginger plant in the United States). The Huns are farming gods in my eyes, searching through weeds taller than they are only to emerge with the beautiful treasures that they had planted in early spring. Next time I see them at market im going to buy out thier whole table.