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).