I keep meaning to write about the farm but a combination of our slow progress towards getting anything done and my obsessions with politics and macroeconomics have been preventing that. So here’s some quick updates:
Sasha has been making little mounds in the garden, and in the middle of each she placed a blackberry bush, which at this point is just a little stick. Also, she put some broccoli along with the berry bushes on three of the mounds. Our timing was, as usual, lousy. Immediately after putting these in a storm blow through. It dumped some rain in Norfolk but here in Suffolk all we got was wind and tornado watches. 
But none of the little sticks blew over, and it happens to be raining now, so I expect most of these will survive.
By Sasha’s command, I’ve been digging trenches for potatoes.
In the the trenches we drop potato pieces, each of which is about a 1 inch cube containing at least one eye.
We had Bill dig a basement for our smoker. I’ll describe this in more detail as it progresses.
And Sasha’s been growing tomatoes, peppers, and ground cherries in the oven.
We keep them in the oven at night and put them outside in a tiny plastic greenhouse in the morning. For four days we kept the light on in the oven at night, for warmth, but now that the seedlings have grown a bit we stopped doing that and will soon stop taking them in at night. And of course, they’ll soon be planted.
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