Sometimes my job has a surreal quality to it ... This morning I went from a breakfast phone call about the impact of the financial crisis, to grading geometry quizzes, on to plucking feathers at chicken harvest, to changing my clothes for an admissions visit, and on to a phone call with a capital campaign consultant. The enclosed photograph is of the students and staff receiving final instructions from Betsy before the chicken harvest began. Your children did an excellent job. We harvested 50 chickens and an additional 7 large turkeys for our freezer. The work was hard and the community pulled together cooperatively. Our students continue to understand the many differences between small scale - family type - farms and the huge, monoculture, factory farming operations that stock our supermarkets. Several days ago, noted author and professor of environmental journalism, Michael Pollan was interviewed on NPR. I have enclosed the link below, which speaks to many of the things that we do on the NCS farm. The snowing is melting and we are in for three or four glorious days!
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