Growing Season at Acorn and Glomus

by Raven Glomus

It’s full into the farm season and this weeks roundup of stuff from our Facebook feed focuses on what’s growing at Acorn Community and Glomus Commune:

First, Acorn gets a lot of early lettuce and donates to their local food bank:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CPA-3maFEcm/

And then, on Instagram, someone at Acorn Community is bragging that their whole breakfast (vegetables and eggs) comes right from their own farm.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CPIqG28FXVI/

Meanwhile, here at Glomus, here’s Cicada of East Brook Community Farm (our communal business) bringing out the greens and veggies for our first weekly CSA of 2021. Farming is our business, and it’s a lot of work, but this is the payoff.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CPqTl-TD67t/

Finally, farm work is not just about vegetables. Here are some pictures of the cute little goslings that we are raising at Glomus:

Walking the Loop

If you were walking the loop around Lick Creek at East Wind Community, what kinds of birds would you see? Take a tour with Sumner.

Communal bees vs solitary bees

Sumner (ex-East Wind) looks at the bees that you can find around East Wind Community as well as their social structures. This is part of Sumner’s continuing series on non-human life around East Wind.

East Wind’s Dairy Barn Birds

Sumner continues his exploration of birds and other wildlife at the East Wind community. Here he takes us down to East Wind’s dairy barn and out to pasture with the cows, all the while looking at the birds that surround those places.

Jays and Birds of Prey at East Wind

What kinds of birds can you find at East Wind Community? How about blue jays, white jays, and various birds of prey…

Here’s Sumner’s latest East Wind wildlife video.

Two Bats at East Wind

Warning: this is a strange video. As Sumner says, it’s about two bats doing… something. Fighting? Sex? There’s a bunch of footage (including a brief cameo by a peeper frog) and a lot of speculation. There’s a lot of life at the rural communes and much of it nonhuman. Sumner has been documenting it at East Wind. (Also, language warning. Folks at the communes pretty much say what they are thinking and not always in the most polite manner. Still, nothing you couldn’t hear in the cities if you listen.)

Birds around East Wind, #2

More than people live at the communes. Here’s a video of some of the birds that hang out at East Wind. It’s the second in a series.

The Birds of East Wind’s Lick Creek

Lick Creek runs through East Wind Community and videographer Sumner has documented the birds that hang out there. This is the second in a series about wildlife at East Wind. Here’s the first in the series.

The Birds of East Wind: Video #1

People aren’t the only residents of the communes. Here Sumner presents the first in a series of videos about wildlife that is found around East Wind. This one is about common birds that hang out around the community.

Fall at East Wind Community

Val Kyrie posted these haunting pictures on the East Wind Facebook page. I’m sharing them with you.