Well, things are slow right now and Renee has let me know she won't be needing any help for a while. I was fully expecting to go back for another two or three weeks to see the new chicks and ducklings and learn what it takes to get them from little chickies to say a teenage hen, but that's not to be. But I did get to see them, I went out to the farm to pick up the rest of my stuff and the chicks are in a small pen which consists of a small wading pool bordered by a cardboard fence with two heat lamps hanging above them to keep things comfortable. It's hard to imagine that these little chicks will go from two or three in the palm of your hand to fully grown and weighing three to five pounds in around eleven short weeks. Maybe Renee will need some help in the future and I'll get to see the full cycle.
Now, it's on to the next adventure. Today is Saturday, Jan. 10, 2010 and I drove down to Sopchoppy, Florida and met Jack Simmons of Crescent Moon Farm, you can check out his website at http://www.crescentmoonorganicfarm.com Jack has a permanent intern and in two more weeks another permanent intern will arrive, but he can use some help for these two weeks, so I will start on Monday around 11:00 am. The really cool thing about his place is he makes biodiesel from waste vegetable oil, and he makes it in 150 gallon batches!! This is something I've been interested in for some time and I'm really looking forward to it. The down side is that he uses a dial up connection so for me there's no internet. So I'll be doing my posts on the weekend when I come into Tallahassee.
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