We've made our bed...

Today we finished building another free-form bed with burlap and compost. We're pretty much experts at this now.

Now, you might be able to tell how hard we're working here, but you might not know from this angle quite how cool -- nevermind how gigantic -- the bed is that we're building. How about from this perspective?

Pretty cool, no? It was the students who came up with the idea to build beds to spell out "D.F" (for Drew-Freeman, of course). Now, after days of trying out designs and moving soil, we need to decide what we want to plant in it....

Sweet potatoes: a huge success!

You may not be able to tell from this photo, but this sweet potato -- dug up just yesterday alongside the Windsor Crossing hoop house -- is about the size of my thigh:

 

And I'll be darned if it wasn't delicious chopped up into my lentil soup for dinner. Can you believe that it grew from this little bitty thing we transplanted last May?