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I am responsible for this week's "Notes from the Farm" for the CSA newsletter! 150 words. Please forgive the cheesiness. Here goes:

This week we are happy to welcome two volunteers, Patrick and Nika, to our farm team! They have already been a great help in getting done those important tasks that often get put off for another week. We finished sowing most of our greens for fall harvest. In our field on Ninth Line, we blitz-weeded our winter squash, beets and carrots. Five of us suffered our first wasp stings of the season while weeding the compost pile there. Who knew a pile of manure could make such an attractive home for wasps? Luckily, our in-house herbal healer, Kelly, demonstrated how make a poultice from plantain leaves to dress our wounds. On Tuesday we finally made a significant dent organizing the basement of our new strawbale building (which, by the way, still needs a name, and suggestions are more than welcome - e-mail lynn@everdale.org!). Soon we will be able to use the shaded space beneath the building's rooftop garden for washing and bunching our Thursday harvests. On Wednesday we were treated to a welding workshop at Bows Bells sheep farm in Markdale. Les Richards has been welding for over 40 years, and he was an excellent teacher. With enough practice, we'll be mending everything from broken S-tines to table legs in no time!

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