By Pippa Wilkinson | Volunteer
The second lot of mums are now well settled in at the farm and are beginning to see the fruits of their hard labour; it's harvest time. For potatoes at least! There are sack loads of them. Some are for eating, others for selling, others being stored to be replanted for the next harvest.
In addition to working the community farm, the mums also have their own land to experiment and put into practice all they've learnt on the community farm. It's interesting to observe their choices of what they do with their own land. Some are planting just one crop, others have chosen to plant different crops. Some have hired local farmers to help them work their land, others are farming it themselves. One mum has even got chickens and rabbits for eggs, meat and to sell!
It's a good time of year for the mums and they are very happy at the farm. It's always an encouraging time to reap the benefits of much hard labour and disappointment of failed crops over the previous months. They deserve the joy of harvesting the fruit of the hard work they have put in.
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