Back at Avalon Ecovillage this week...

Jasmine is enjoying going to school on her "spring break":) Their school is a bit different and much more enjoyable. Yesterday I was introduced to all of the horses, and learned that they have a vaulting program here. The girls learn gymnastics on horses. A special saddle is involved with handles like on the men's pommel horse in gymnastics. They then learn various gymnastics moves while the horse is moving in a circle. After that, I worked in one of the greenhouses transplanting seedlings. My back is sore. Today, I spent the morning in the middle school while they did math and language arts , then the afternoon in the dairy barn and grain milling area. I haven't been in a milking barn since vet school. They make all of their own cheese, kefir, yogurt and everything else here. The refrigerator is as big as a double wide trailer and is full of more eggs than I've ever seen in one location, cultures of every kind for each of the different kinds of cheeses and yogurts. They also have a huge barn full of wheat that needs to be milled. The new milling machine isn't working correctly, so we had to do an experiment to see how much it was milling compared to how much it was supposed to be milling. Right now I can hear Jasmine and a bunch of other kids playing "drums" and singing - actually screaming. Back to the garden for me right now.