View from kitchen window in the WOOFers quarters

 

WOOFers quarters, outside

 

Weeping willow out front is where the turkeys roost at night.

 

Biochar stove – just fired up today

 

Hothouse/greenhouse

 

Potatoes, squash, melons and raspberries

 

Solar water pump, pump house and cistern

 

Second solar water pump, in front of goat house

 

Yummy asparagus patch behind WOOFers quarters

 

View from the fire pit

 

Another fire pit view

 

The goats, L to R, Bella, Lillian and little Peanut

 

My host’s straw bale house

 

Two of three turkeys that like to follow you around

 

Lillian is quite a ham

 

The solar oven – first try with beans but it was overcast

 

The outdoor kitchen

 

Wood-fire cobb oven in outdoor kitchen

It is indeed rare for me to find myself speechless when visiting a place — but this is something that needs to be absorbed and savored [and I’m also learning and working every day!]  Valuable life skills to take back to Indiana that I hope one day to build upon with a like-minded community.