Summer Scenes at Jonah House
ADDED VALUE staff and students visit Jonah House August 3-4 on their way to an agriculture and youth conference in Washington, D.C. Phil, Tina, Denia, Elizabeth De la Cruz are part of Added Value, a farm in Red Hook, Brooklyn. The four are part of the Digital project, and they plan to document the conference, and put out a newsletter for the participants each day, and show a slide show of the activities at the end. We here at Jonah House enjoyed their visit.
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Left:Tina, Denia, Elizabeth in back, Phil in front. Right: Gary, Susan, Tina, Megan, Denia, Phil, Elizabeth, Joe, Liz and Shirley (Kevin is washing the dishes) |
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Carol in the garden and at the farmers' market |  |
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Carol has knit the socks. The nubian goats. Paul and Silas eat grass. |  |
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An outing to the quarry with Frida, Ian, Shirley, Kate, Molly, Jerry , Amos and Liz. Megan took the pictures. |  |
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Robin and Melissa visit Jonah House from California. Robin feeds Micah. |
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| Children from Project Wonder, St Peter Clavier's Bible Camp, came to Jonah House during their week of camp. Here Megan Kuhl,. intern extraordinaire, explains the Human Knot activity.. |
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| All tangled up in a knot, trying to get untangled. | |
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| Untangled at last! Turned out we were in two separate interlocking circles. | |
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| Shantrese gives one of the nubian goats a good brushing. | |
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| Marcus prepares the earth to plant lettuce. |
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| Asia, Candice, and Chantell tying up the dahlias. |
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| Anthony spreading the hay around the peas. |
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| Shea and Chantrese take the nubian goats for a walk. |
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Bobo, the cat, lurks. (see concerned letter below for a more appropriate description) The keets will soon grow into full size guinea fowl. The guinea fowl are expected to eat ticks, bag worms and other pernicious insects. Kevin Jones, the master carpenter, built the magnificent portable keet coop. |
Dear Susan,
I am concerned that Bobo is not being given the respect and honor due him. I say this because he is characterized in a picture on your elegant website as “lurking.” Clearly a negative term for what could be interpreted as teaching the young fowl, amusing the young fowl, even just enjoying a profound silent moment with the young fowl.
Until cats are free, none of us is free.
In peace and with much love,
Alice