Sterling Day 4

Today I worked as a farm hand again. My first project was to rig a watering system for the mobile egg laying unit. I attached a gutter under the roof, connected a pex tube from the gutter to a collection bucket hung on the outside wall, and fed a tube into the chicken area where a little fountain was connected. Pretty simple! As long as we keep getting rain we shouldn't have to carry anymore water buckets out there this summer.




My next project was "mucking." This involves cleaning the layers of hay, dung and urine out of the animal pens using a pitchfork and shovel and wheelbarrowing the heaps over to the compost pile. It was strangely statisfying.



“An exploiter wishes to earn as much as possible by as little work as possible. The nurturer expects to have a decent living from his land but his characteristic wish is to work as well as possible.” - Wendell Berry