10/16/2026
Right now in the farm kitchen are 2 teenage girls making potato soup, molasses cookies and hot chocolate. One is our daughter Sophia and the other is one of our Grow Oklahoma! interns.
There is a group of interns in the garden filling hugel containers and gathering decaying wood, leaves, compost, soil. These are our winter beds.
The other group is out in the pastures removing persimmon trees. We had close to a hundred thousand to remove, we are about half-way done.
The next adventures these interns are moving onto are rebuilding the back deck, building a greenhouse and then the health and wellness center with a commercial kitchen and teaching greenhouse on each end. Here they will learn food prep, packaging and bringing things to the market...whether it is a farmer's market or retail shop. And sharing food with the community, especially our elders.
Things are happening here at Longshadows. Good things.
We will be at Tahlequah Farmers Market tomorrow from 8-12. Sophia is whipping up some apple pie, and we will have potato soup, bread and CHEESE! Of course we have our wonderful herbal teas - so good for the immune system and homeopathics.
And have you put our gathering on your calendar? 10/31
Bring a dish to share. Your camp chair. And join us for fellowship, community, a fireside chat, some music? folks bring your instrument and have a jam session.
