Greetings, Its been a while since I have checked in, but I have been doing a bit of moving. I left my temporary home in Ayacucho and headed by bus towards Cusco, Peru.  The bus ride took about a day, partially because people along the way set up a roadblock. The roadblock was set up by local Peruvians in order to make a point about their dislike for the government. The twenty protesters set up boulders in the middle of the road and then marched together holding a flag.

I recently reclaimed some old wood that came from a horse barn and created a table for my sister and her husband as a wedding gift. The wood is poplar and cedar. This is just one example of the infinite possibilities when using discarded resources.

   The name itself describes the idea. To create a system that fosters and grows new farms/ farmers. Recently a group met in Montgomery County, Md to discuss what would be needed to start such a program. There where representatives from Whole Foods, the county council, the parks service,  and local farm operations as well as a group of aspiring farmers. The purpose of the focus group was to determine what would be needed in order to best fuel the growth of localized food production through a government sponsored incubator program.