We have lots of banana trees on our property. When the bananas fall, you have to put the whole bushel in a bag and hang it up for a week or two until they ripen. Looks like we'll be making banana bread and lots of smoothies in a week!!!
We met some new friends, Ryan, Kelly and their beautiful children Anna, Nora, and Jake, that work for OM (Operation Mobilization) here in town. They are great and we've had loads of fun getting to know them (sharing meals, running together, playing ultimate, etc). They hooked us up with a man named Renee from their church who has a farm up in the hills. He graciously took us there one day to plant onions and see his land. There is a great video of Yari explaining what he taught us that I will post as soon as blogger lets me. (ugh, I can't post videos right now!)
We were driving to visit a small scale dairy farm one day (45 cows) and found a tarantula. Yes, a tarantula. Not a spider or a big spider. A HUGE spider the size of Yari's hand. Yuk!
Yari's uncle runs the dairy farm and invited us to watch him milk. Kyle and I learned how to milk and care for cows while in Florida last year with Charlie, but that was only 3 cows and a few calves. This was 45 cows staring you in the face. Cute, but smelly.
His set up is pretty cool. He's able to stand lower than the cows so he doesn't have to sit to milk them. He also has milking machine that hooks up to each utter and pumps the milk into a large container. Again, we are working on uploading the videos for this.
We were able to take home some raw milk (no mom, I didn't have any) for Kyle and Yari to enjoy. Kyle made yogurt and used the whey to make sauerkraut. He also made spinach dip. (yes mom, I did have some of that and boy was it worth it!!!!)
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