Weekend Activities

Two long, exhuasting days spent cutting and pruning and dragging branches from the backyard down to the driveway. We're clearing the area where we'll build the studio.

The above photo is about 1/3 of the way done on early Saturday.

Spencer from the Oakland Zoo came by again to pick up all of the branches for elephant "browse". We sent him away with an overloaded truck and another pile to be picked up tomorrow.

Spencer says that if you put a pile of Eucalyptus, a pile of Palm, a pile of Oak and a pile of Acacia in front of a hungry elephant, they would probably chose the Oak first and then the Palm.

I took Farmgirl Susan's advice and sprinkled some Diatomaceous earth around the plants that are being eaten. I poked holes in the lid of a mustard jar to make a little cannister. I'm crossing my fingers we'll actually get to harvest some kale and kohlrabi soon.