一年

小綠眼是在去年的六月十八號起飛。我還記得去年的現在，我們在台中搬家，跟房東用得不愉快；每天在打包放在台灣的衣物和收拾到美國的行李。

一年過去了。小綠眼從霍普金斯補習班畢業。我讀了兩個學期，最後的一個月寫報告和考試到生不如死。小綠眼說，「畢業了，另外一個茫然...」。

Day 4: Hoeing and making beds

Today's task was to hoe a piece of land and make beds. The beds are for plants that can be seeded directly (alternative to go plant in small cases and in green house until grown to certain weeks). This is one physical demanding job and at the end of the day, I got five blisters (one of them is almost the size of a dime). Today was also my turn to go water the plants in the green house, feed the chicken, and move their houses.

So there are two chicken homes. Each is 2x2x2 meters wood made cubic. One home has five chicken, the other has nine chicken and a rooster. The homes need to be moved twice a day because they eat the worms and whatever on the ground. I have to give them fresh water and move the super heavy homes (pictures soon).

The piece of land that we make beds is covered by weeds. Some weeds are nasty such as thistles, a mile in a minute, and other random stuffs. Thistles have thorns and they have thick vines and root very deep. It was hard to dig them out. Not all of them are dug out and so I have to be very careful not to sit on one because they are "a pain in the butt."

The green house is very green (really green). It is very humid and hot to the extent that standing inside can make you sweat so bad that you feel like water is pouring on you. So watering for 15 or 20 minutes is like a trip to hell. And I have to visit the green house four times a day. Luckily, no green house for three days.

Nothing at the farm really works like they should. There are "tricks" to nearly every machines. The only reliable objects on the farm are human, thankfully.

P.S. One chick peaked me today. My colleague said she was kissing me.

P.S. 2, I have no muscles.

Day 2: Strawberry field

The day started early. I was up at 6:20, ate a bowl of cereal and ready to go. The first task was weeding the strawberry field. It was really bad because the field wasn't weeded for a month. A mile in a minute is a type of weed (something I learnt today).

After three hours of weeding, we got to pick strawberries. It was fun for two seconds, but after that it got a little depressing. This is the third batch of berries this season (third harvest) so there aren't that many left and most of them are bruised, ate by bugs, or rotted. A few of them were really big, like the size of pin-pon ball.

The just ripen berries are delicious. They are red and shinny. When you bit it, it is so sweet and juicy. Delicious. I had never tasted anything like that.

Our farm supported 600 people per week. Next Tuesday is the first pick-up. This is a community supported agriculture farm. The operation is people buy "shares" and they receive whatever harvested that week.

Tomorrow we will do more weeding.

Daily schedule:

7: ready to go.

11ish-2: lunch break

2-5ish: work

then free after that

PS. The chicken haven't been lying eggs and we are thinking of eating them.