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What do the different sounds our chickens make mean?  A sort of whistle...

Stenciling the vermicompost bags, and testing erosion prevention with aging weeds?

No raging heat, pleasant heat for harvesting 27 "boxes" worth of vegetables. 

Volunteering to pick Okra - Ladies Fingers - Bamya?  Be well shielded! 

My last night before summer turns to autumn. Observing, watching, listening, wondering...

Sunday the team arrived early to work on the first batch of pickles, and then threading meters of pepers for drying.

Language?  OK I was

How much we can learn from Nature!  Under stress, priorities are clear.  Survival of the fittest among the wide range of seeds and offspring.  Produce as much as possible with available resources.  

As for humans, such choices are seen as&

Strange summer, while elsewhere overheats, we have rain end of July! What can we take for granted?  

A week ago a Steppe Ecology course brought even more understanding of how nature has adapted life forms to the harsh conditions of extremes of temperature and low rainfall.  June is the time of year when the annuals are turning to seed, leaving space&

Aika, this is for you: for all the beauty and energy you have brought to Güneşköy over recent months.  Fazla beklemeden yine gel! 

Only a few days left before we submit our Erasmus project: İbrahim tested his new tent on the coldest night in a long time.  In the glasshouse, seedlings need watering daily.  The chickens are laying more eggs, and our ducks move to their new home.&

Being on the land in the winter is quiet:  next year will be quieter when the rail viaduct construction is complete.  

While others were preparing the land, I cleared more of a path between the overgrown Jerusalem thorns.