So this is my first attempt at updating our blog. As you can tell the previous beautifully written post were not written by me as I'm less than capable of expressing my feelings and thoughts (probably a male thing), so my post will be bring a little more on the technical aspect of our wwoofing adventures.
Our first major task was to mulch the berry fields with woodchips, sounds simple enough, but little did we know it was going to be a backbreaking experience. We spent an entire day moving the chips from one location of t
he farm to another and was kanckered even before we could get down to the actual work. Somehow I think there was something fundementally wrong with the whole process, but hey who cares about efficency when we had all day (We spent half of it chilling under a tree with ice jasmine tea and japanese snacks)The blueberry field had a nice little weed protection system going, a cardboard mulch at the base of the plant and a woodchip mluch that we hand-raked across the field hoping to supress the many weeds and to keep the soil moist and warm. Well in theory that was the idea however the resilant weeds were able to find their way in between the crevices of the cardboard and have since sprouted, well hope the woodchip mulch stand the test of the tampopo seeds*.
*Tampopo is the japanese term for Dandelion (there are heaps of them in the fields right now)
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