From Anthony...
As a biology major and one of the two Goshen College students in this year’s Agroecology summer intensive, I was familiar with Merry Lea and the accompanying facilities beforehand. The connectedness that Merry Lea offers to the environment and its biological elements is what drew me here.
It has only been three weeks since the intensive started, yet already we have all comfortably fallen into the daily routine. It is hard to believe there is only a week and a half left in the first half of the intensive. But they say time flies when you’re having fun.
On Monday this week we visited Sustainable Greens, located just north of Constantine MI, where we were given a tour by the owners, James and Kate Lind. We learned how using only 4 acres of land, they are able to supply many restaurants in Chicago and still have enough product to sell at the farmers market.
Tuesday and Wednesday this week we had Vegetable Crops classes, Thursday and Friday was Soils. Outside of class we mulched parts of the Kitchen Garden as well as the Permaculture Garden and many of the trees at the Farmstead. The Kitchen Garden also received chicken wire around the bottom half of the existing fence because the rabbits have been, or were, showing great interest in our garden.
