A shorter day May 24th

Today was a pretty simple but back breaking at the same time. We woke up a little bit later at 8 which was nice to be able to sleep in, and then after breakfast we hit the road to go to the Wallace Country Farm. After about a two hour van ride we arrived and were treated to lunch, and were told about all the programing that the Farm does. They try to sponsor productive discussion with people from a variety of different backgrounds about different issues. All of the programs are down in typical midwestern fashion and they are all preceded by a meal. After the induction and a wonder lunch that included vegetables from the farm we got the chance to work with Mosa Shayan who is the farm manager. He first showed us around a bit of the 12 acre farm, and then put us hard to work weeding the potato beds. Since they run an organic farm, we had to clear all the weeds by hand using hoes, but there were some very tough thistle weeds that we had to pull out by hand. After some unfortunate stings by some thistle and a quick burst of rain we had cleared all the potato beds. With some goodbye’s we left the farm to travel back to our farm and dinner. Along the way though we ended up stopping at the birth place of John Wayne on the way back (we had HN’s insatiable need for coffee and Ethan’s justified obsession and good eyes for this little side adventure). We finally made it back to the farm and had another wonderful dinner made by Diane. Today was a less hectic day but still every bit enjoyable.