Well that's not exactly what I've been working with lately, but you'll see the connection.
Recently I've been doing some work for the White Violet Center for Eco-Justice to help pay for a week-long Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Field Study this May at their site. So far my contribution has been pruning apple trees. We finished the first orchard today and started on the second, larger one.
If you are anywhere near Terre Haute you need to stop by and visit this site. Also on the site is the campus of Saint-Mary-of-the-Woods College, about ten minutes northwest of Terre Haute.
White Violet raises alpacas, harvests their wool, cards it, spins it, and either weaves with it or sells it. Each alpaca is a different color, so the skeins of wool from each is a different color. Beautiful.
They have a greenhouse currently filling up with this year's seed starts.
The starts are used in an extensive community supported agriculture program which is run by White Violet staff with the help of volunteers (plus the "captive" participants in the field study).
They keep bees, have a straw bale building on site, manage a wetlands, sell fire wood, manage a small library, promote environmental justice, ... and likely do lots more I haven't learned about yet.
The only problem is that they're not about 50 miles closer to Raccoon Creek.
Check for pictures of the alpaca babies (called "crias"), due after March 15th.
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