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Archive of entries posted on October 2009

A grassroots recovery is under way at the farm, thanks to all of you

Green grass! The grass has been moving up along the hill and olive orchard for a week, like a slow-growing beard, and today it covers the whole farm.

October has definitely been a time of new beginnings here at Soul Food Farm. To start with, the air is fresh and cool and the mornings have a [...]

First a fire, now a flood … what a year

Yesterday the huge storm ravaged the farm. We had no clue what we were in for.
Luckily, since the fire we have learned to make immediate decisions. We saved a lot more birds than we thought. Wind and rain can kill a wet chicken within hours if they do not find shelter. We spent the day [...]

Soul Food Farm video: Rising from the ash

At the chicken house building workday a few weekends ago, filmmaker Thomas Richardson interviewed Alexis and shot this 8-minute video about the farm’s fire and the rebuilding efforts. The physical structures are, of course, the easier things to replace. The 30 acres of singed pasture will take a season to recover (while temporary replacement ones [...]