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never happy!

Not happy!

Yet! I try!
We had a freeze period on the weekend. Some are Amapiens came one night to help light the candles. They were able to tale atmosphere. But the major difficulty is to properly identify when to switch: not too early because it's expensive, or too late because ... ...... must also provide the starting time. Only it takes longer, but more still needs to be more provident.
short, I think I turned on 2x 2x where not needed and was wise.
I also supported the trees clay treatments and foliar organic fertilizer made of seaweed. But I remain in question. Flowering is finished and I'm not sure that the fruit set, or Pollination has passed satisfactorily. There are varieties that comfort me, but others who worry me. The wind lecture that followed did not help.
And this wind crushed the greenhouse strawberries we had in place three weeks ago.




Already I was late to ask! But well below the strawberries are in full bloom and do not seem to have suffered from -4.5 ° C on Monday morning. Phew, but for me it reactivates the utility tunnels! So many working for harvesting daylight 15j! well yeah, it puts the crop at shelter. But I'm
never alone! A week ago it was freezing and the wind and rain this morning!! yes, if it rains I can not enter the land before a few days and I just started to prepare the soil to receive
my compost! and then I had to put three flat strips of plastic mulch! but before I had to give a little help with the tractor clutches. Heck, my night was inhabited by the sound of rain on my skylight.
never alone! Never happy!
And then the wind has torn off the plastic of the tunnel so beautiful that we had mounted the other Thursday to host the first rotation of tomatoes that I had 15j already behind in planting!


it's my fault! Using unsuitable equipment, I tinker, invent, I traffic, and ... ........ sometimes it does not work at all. At least I know that this new idea needs improvement! but it makes us no tomatoes! but hey maybe even a sign to say we do not like it and want to advance the crop is going to imbalances.

Other ideas have germinated. Now it's really too late to put these tomatoes in the tunnel! I think using the frame of the tunnel that is about to put in good condition Giovani a shade that gives me (a peasant amap near Arles). The major problem is overheating my claws and very dry atmosphere that prevails there. What causes, for tomatoes, a lack of pollination and attacks spiders. I will still plant tomatoes, but I'll ask a very small tunnel (tracked) on each of flowerbeds,
crossing their fingers that the gel is finished, the wind left alone and hopefully we will have tomatoes mid-June!! and if everything goes wrong! Well you can console me and dream of tomatoes! you get it in July!
This wind reminded me how my farm is in the precarious in its structures. Last year, with small arches of the tunnel that I was given, with Lucien, we cobbled together a shed. Super! Finally my tractor, my equipment, my palette of clay, my trays of strawberries, my crates, etc. ... are safe. With this wind, I thought that the tarp that covers everything was going to expose this "improvement". what it takes! Anyway it took! But it is not sure it's yours next time!
I made by a friend plans a building where there would be a shed, garage, storage room, a room in which to prepare the distribution, a local processing, greenhouse glass for planting and then drying, toilets and showers, brief as it should. To apply for the permit, I need a permit to clear (because of the changing nature of the soil). Therefore a folder and I still not done! so it's not tomorrow that I do not tremble before the most insecure facilities. But at the same time
precarious cheap! 150 euros to cover the shed, weather, wire, welds .......
season that begins with tricks, turns, but it's really rare that any battery falls hair! So I have to do with! And to help me, there is the strength of the concept. Since February you sign contracts 2009 and I'm soon to
quantity. Each of you, beyond financial support (which is so tranquilizing) gives me so much love. Even if the tears come, although discouraged, there is a force that is in me! The freezing wind! It's magic! Thank you! A
you, Bernard amap of the Moors, gave me a nice little van: a Nissan-Vanette. Tomorrow he goes to roadworthiness and it is great.



I remember my picnic Farm May 17 It is quite possible that on this occasion a Latvian delegation to come and see how it goes this concept amap. We seek a resource person for the translations of Latvian or Russian to French. The funding has URGENCI for these exchanges are not very consistent. We need to supplement them.
And then I want to congratulate all the players this week that ends without pesticides. You are great. The Hummingbird Stone Rabbi resonates in us. Every act, every choice gives the possibility of hope. And what unites us is this need for love, the invisible force that invites us to move, create, give, receive.

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2009-2's go!

's go!

Emergency international association founded in 2004 following the first AMAP symposium in Aubagne has received funding from the Fondation de France for a spin-off program of the CSA concept in the countries of Eastern Europe. With Sylvain of AMAP in Dracénie we went to Latvia from February 14 to 19! We had prepared a slide show and here we are, three times in seminars, trying to tell our experiences ... to be continued ........ AMAP we will make a slideshow of these great moments and we will propose in your CSA or an inter-AMAP.
Urgenci spinoff founders gives farmers the means to be replaced. I took advantage. And before leaving, I had plumbed the farm. With Stephanie, my employee who takes service, we cleaned strawberries.



With a team from the 'lift the sun', we planted all the posts for additional planting apple trees and the wire for trellising.



We repaired the structure of the greenhouse on strawberry (which had been completely smashed by the wind in June 2008)
is ready to be covered.



And especially with my son, Arthur, I did the first treatment of peach with a lance and pipes. It was impossible entering the field! Still flooded. This treatment, based calcined clay (as Baraka), copper and a terpene pine is very important. It prevents blisters on opening and isolates the first attacks on aphids.

My Mom is coming to replace me at home and cuddled my children. She also gave a serious blow sponge! What a pleasure to go into a house all proprounette !!!!( I forgot!) Today, after the train ride home (my mom), I've got to work!



I planted in the middle a line to fish with my tractor! really is not dry yet.



An action which tends to limit the effects of frost, the grass is maintained well in the open field! What I wanted to do! Tomorrow, my friend Hubert farmer will get me out!!



Peaches are about to bloom, at least some varieties. Two pallets of candles have been delivered.



I bought (300 €) this caravan, to be on site at critical times. Well, everything remains in place. Not announced the coldest yet. And time is on top. The

signing contracts is ongoing. There are AMAP where it is done very quickly and others where it trains. I remind you that if the ancients did not sign at the end of February, we consider that they do not renew their contract and accept the new! then this is the last time !!!!!
The table of planning has confused some people! It white beaches that opportunities materialize !
I have not listed your proposals and so I have not yet 'on' workshops! I
account do it quickly. Your choices will be best met.

This week (9), I get the strawberry plants bare root, and 80 apples. Strawberries start in clumps. Because of all this rain I could not prepare beds for planting directly in the game. But if you get the tractor out tomorrow, I can make one!
The nursery (seedlings and put a lump of vegetable) is well under way! We've already done 3 or 4 workshops.

Have you heard like birds singing? Have you seen the flowers p'tites that link?
That's it! There's more to daydream! My

Lucien is always functional rehabilitation center at (Renée Sabran) in Giens. It goes well and has high spirits. But his absence from home is sometimes heavy.

Isabelle

Dragonballz Gets Laid

2009-1 choice

choice

life is punctuated by cycles. The daily is the day and sometimes even an hour! For trees this year! And for us this season.
I hope with all my heart that our partnership brings us happiness and openness. I would like from underneath all that we know provide the care. While our 2009 season is full of flavors, colors, discoveries. It fills us just enough so that the care can flourish and accomplished in the magic of a "good catch".
The contract for the 2009 season to sign in February. The "old" will have to decide this month of February and formalize their desire for the "new" can enter into this partnership.
I remind you that our partnership began in late 2002 when the project took shape. Every time I argued with your support, your participation, your approval. He had to invent, explore, create: other way to enter the world of agriculture, produce, structure, etc. ....
Without you, without that social bonds, without your individuality without confidence, without the care you have given to the formalization this project, the land would remain fallow Peissonnel and I am always looking for a job matching my qualifications ......
For my part, you know, but I am so very pleased to say it again, you allowed me to create this space of my beautiful gardens and beyond everything you gave me this enormous privilege to exist in my whole, you left this blooming flower that sprouted so long deep in me.
Thank you so much and I take the greatest care. With her or her blooming flowers of my children and they are even more accomplished. Thank you, thank you thank you
We traveled more moving! Birth. To date, we have to go to completion. And as I often do you part, it is not easy. I would like to thank the work of the management group who this year wanted to go further. It is true that different balances demanded that deep reflection. It emerged two elements of strength: the need for more resources and a contract price does not go beyond the capabilities of amapiens.
It was prioritized access to the net minimum wage peasant, increased wage and a willingness to plan discovery workshops at the farm. These means are still just enough! But they are the basis of sustainability. For my part I am still intimidated, but so relieved to
confidently enter into the 2009 season.

This season, candles will be anti-freeze under the trees at the end of February.



the process is known and recognized arborists (and wine) the least expensive investment immediately. Even though I tried to go in March 2008 in orchards during frost warnings to understand how to react, I'll have a lot of discernment and insight to better manage the lighting and extinguishing of candles. In fact they have only 12 hours 'heated'. In 2007, I switched three days and the fourth that would have frozen! But in 2008, one night was enough and he would have stayed on to light for the next season.
So it's not because the candles are there this year that the gel has no control over the harvest! In this
contract price, there are also ways for an insulated body and a used car of course. And also the means to continue the planting of apple trees, fig trees create unity and start the raspberry.
To construct the estimate, I rely on previous seasons and readjusts at best. The space between the necessary and margins of maneuver is very very low. I keep a significant place in the resourcefulness and "DIY" who deserves to have a very small cost! But a success not always live up to expectations. I like to pass a work action, with the means at hand! It excites my creativity and look forward to when it works! and the column does not spend too many boxes! But at some point it enough! It must become more professional!. There are tools to make this work so specific, but at what price and often not too versatile.
We each have the choice to be up to our responsibilities as human parents, people on the right side of the planet.
"I undertake the more intimate to me the choice to be your cultiv'actrice and take care of our mother earth. "

note and book: picnic farm May 17, 2009

Isabelle

Salamimold On Outside

Budding artists ...

Aratousages has a large collection of works by various participants in the workshops led by Malena since Merlo 1994. These workshops were held in different institutions for the elderly, first in Madrid, Spain, then in the Languedoc-Roussillon.

More than fifty young artists who, for most, never practiced painting throughout their life (unless stated) have found gradually Over the workshop sessions of their own universe expressive and unique.

ARATOUSAGES The blog invites you to meet some of the artists of old age, their work and their history ...

Marcelle

Basilisca

Huguette

Josefa

Other artists will be put online gradually ...