BUCKY
BERTHA
MOE
BEACH BUNGALOW
At roughly 3am, we woke up with an eerie yet magnificent moonlight penetrating the lone window in our bungalow. Clouds wafted past creating gorgeous light, which was strong enough to cast distinctly larger than life shadows on the wall behind our bed.
Several hours later we woke to see the meandering clouds from hours ago had been joined by a fleet, and we set in for an overcast, drizzly beach day. After breakfast we met Shelby, the intern here. She is roughly 24 and will apprentice here for one calendar year. She's quite nice, and we look forward to working and learning with and from her during our time here at Green Angel Gardens.
This farm is on the Long Beach Peninsula in Washington, and the climate here is costal. There is a constant sea breeze, and the soil is very sandy. Everywhere we've been so far has had mostly clay soil, and we've been in mountainous locales, so this farm is markedly different. With the sandy soil, weeding is far easier, as is digging. But what the soil has in softness it lacks in nutrients, so a goal here, like everywhere, will be to add compost and fertilizers to the soil to make it nutrient rich.
Our final first full day impression is this: avoid the nasty rooster here. His talons are sharp, and we've been warned to walk past him with a stick or shovel for protection. Larkin has expressed his reluctance to slaughter him, but he knows the rooster is dangerous when school children come around on field trips. Shelby regaled us with a tale when the rooster tried to attack, and she was forced to smack him in the head with a pitch fork...on two separate occasions.
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