Goodbye…Hello
10 September 2009
And so it ends. Our spring interns have been trickling off the farm and on to new adventures across the globe. We were lucky enough to not have said a complete goodbye as several stayed on both as guests and volunteers to help out on the farm while the fall group got settled here at Spannocchia (and we are forever indebted for that). It was a wonderful summer full of fresh lettuces, live music, fig picking and jam making, Castle sleepovers and, of course, kittens! While we will miss Annie, Cashel, Jess, John, Karla, Kat, Nick and Pearce we invite them back soon and know that they will always be a part of our community, even when far away.
It seems as though the weather here it Tuscany was well aware of the fact that our Fall session was beginning as it changed quite literally the day the new group began work. Spannocchia welcomed Amber, Lila, Liz, Colin, Toby, Chris, Seth and Sage with some of the best weather we’ve seen in recent weeks…not too hot, not too cold and beautiful, clear skies. The group has only been at it a short 5 days or so but has settled in effortlessly. In addition to fixing fences in the blink of an eye, bottling kilos and kilos of tomatoes as if it were second nature and managing to keep the pool beyond spotless, they’ve been busy in the kitchen! We are lucky enough to have already experienced the culinary prowess of this group via BBQ’d chicken and steak, bruschetta with the reddest of red tomatoes from the garden and shockingly delicious chocolate and lemon cakes. Yay for fall!!!
A presto…