Resilience in the San Juan Islands (May 6-8, 2011)

A glorious field trip this past weekend for the WWU/Huxley agroecology practicum course! Thanks to our farmer-partners for making this happen! And a special thanks to our cooks! 
At the Bullock Brothers’ Homestead on Orcas

Thick planting of peas
Comfrey (bio-accumalator) and color-spot tulips

Grafting…..with unlikely companions

Onto Rhonda Barbieri’s La Campesina project (Orcas)

OLR — first certified raw milk dairy in Washington state (Shaw)

Cheese-making

Onto some wetlands study…..

And, Lopez Island — S & S Homestead (Henning Sehmsdorf), studying pasture management using rotational grazing and…..studies in fermentation (and fine dining).

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