Acorn

Acorn was the first community we lived in for an extended period of time. These good people let us park our trailer on their land and live and work with them. We learned a lot about tending to crops, things like how to plant corn, how to harvest onions and garlic, how to kill squash plants!

In fact, we learned that leaving a new person unsupervised around growing vegetables can be a dangerous thing. I killed the squash plant when I pulled it right out by the roots when weeding. I also stepped on a few bean plants because I couldn't tell them from weeds.

Overall, though, it seemed we were more help than hinder and we appreciate the Acorn family for their generosity and patience. Lunch and dinner were communal and we ate vegetables fresh from the garden! The water came straight from a well and tasted delicious. (We have been spending a lot of money buying bottled water on this trip and clean, pure water has become a must-have item for us wherever we land).

Acorn is an "egalitarian" community in that the income from their (successful) seed exchange business is distributed to all in the community equally. Most forms of contribution, even watching the village children, counts.

Here is Edmond, the farm manager, photographing a choice lettuce for the seed catalog.

Acorn is right next to another, very big and well-known community called "Twin Oaks". We went to Twin Oaks often, one night for dancing. This band of players was great.









We met wonderful people at Acorn and entertain the idea of helping them with their Fall harvest, the time when seed preparation and storage are in full swing. A seed business is a very good one for a community and Acorn should do very well. We were all sad to go, but felt we needed to keep moving as there is much more to see and do. Thanks, Acorn!

After we left Acorn we went to the Atlantic and hung out on the beach for a couple of days.

Then on to Amish country!