Memphis Democrat October 11, 2000

Usually this time of year things start to slow down and interns make their way home. This year is different. We have more visitors than members right now, and we had two interns show up this week: Minna, who is a student at Stanford University in CA and Debra, who recently graduated from Brandeis University, outside of Boston. We're excited to have them both here.

The Scotland County High School sociology class came by for a tour, with their instructor Barbara Campbell. Neighbor Bob Greenley has been stopping by and unloading some of the mill ends from his job at Cardwell Lumber, for us to use as firewood.

With the cold weather coming in, we decided to pack up our outdoor summer kitchen and rebuild the temporary straw bale house inside it for folks to live in this winter. Jess managed a crew for two days and they are almost done. With so many interns staying into the colder months, we're creating a bunk house for them there. Jacob conducted a tree mulching expedition this week and got about half of our thousands of trees mulched in one day.

Communities Magazine, a publication of the Fellowship of Intentional Community which is based at Sandhill Farm, was printed this week. A group of folks, led by Cecil, went over to the office and shipped out the magazines to distributors and individuals.

Don directed a apple cider pressing and applesauce canning party that lasted much of one day. We ended up with about 5 gallons of cider canned and several dozen quarts of applesauce.

Susan taught an evening session on co-counseling, a method of peer counseling that she has learned elsewhere and we all had the opportunity to practice.