Out on The Farm, August 16-19th

'Hidden Springs', is the farm I was on and again I met more really interesting people. Portions of Hector and Susie's family, large parts of it, were in town visiting so the dinners were large events w/ folks from at least two Provinces of Canada, and several states. On one evening there were around 30 people eating w/ the fresh foods being prepared by family members throughout the day. The number of folks participating was not always that big but the foods were fixed w/ combined efforts and love. I returned to Townsend on Tuesday afternoon but had the opportunity to sample; several times, an awesome homemade desert. A "brownie" of some sort I'll call it, yet this thing rivaled the best energy bar I've ever read the nutrition content on and that has been a "few". Dude, they had chocolate, nuts of assorted types and fruits and berry's from the garden of various flavors. I think it had oats or some cereal in it as well. I do not have a complete list of the ingredients so maybe if Eric; a current "migrant worker", (ha,ha,humour), reads this he could clarify the ingredients for us in the comment section. If not I'll ask next week when I go back up for a few days.

Several of us including Alexis and Eric got out for a slow walk into the falls, up, over, and around, then back down. While on top of the falls we followed the stream, which feeds the cascade in this picture, about a quarter mile up stream and it was strong despite the lack of rain over the last few weeks. Further action was taken in discussion w/ Hector towards protecting the falls area. It is early in the process and as Hector so calmly states, "so much work to be done yet". This, I believe, was referring to the berry's on the bush and the work remaining to complete the harvest. Peace