Epilogue I am satisfied with the Primal Diet – experimenting and refining… It has been nearly 2 years since I first wrote the Amish Diaries. I prepared this for blog publication while sitting in an open air kitchen in the middle of the jungle on the Big Island of Hawaii (where this photo was taken),…
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Living experience on a raw food farm – Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements First and foremost I would like to thank Albert, his family and all the other Amish I hung out with who helped bridge the Amish/English cultural gap by allowing me, a raw meat eating, eccentric surfer from California into their homes and lives. I would like to thank my Mom, Dad and brother for…
Living experience on a raw food farm – Day 33
Day 33 1/14/05 – memories of the Amish A cheerful light skinned, plump, black man just walked into the train car. He announced, “Tickassss Out! Take ya ‘tam!” I asked, “How ya doin?” He said, “Fine, sounds like the train’s fawlling apaaaart.” The train was making a lot of noise. I said goodbye to everyone…
Living experience on a raw food farm – Day 32
Day 32 1/13/05 I’m hanging out with Albert and Marie right now. Lucy and Lisa are asleep on the couch. The wind is howling outside. The chimes are chiming. Albert is using my cell phone. I let him use it so we could hang out instead of him going to the phone outside. I hope…
Living experience on a raw food farm – Day 31
Day 31 1/12/05 I woke up at 5:00 am this morning. I got picked up at 6:00 am to be taken to Christian Ackerman’s to butcher a pig. The driver almost left without me. Peter didn’t know I was getting picked up and told her it was the wrong house. I had to run after…
Living experience on a raw food farm – Day 30
Day 30 1/11/05 Hand hurts too much to write. I caught 200 chickens that were to be sold at an auction today. Luckily, I didn’t have to kill them. Peter told me we had to clean the entire hen house tonight of poop, it’s over 300 feet long. I was thinking “Uh-uh”. We didn’t finish…
Living experience on a raw food farm – Day 28
Day 28 1/9/05 Lazy day. We woke up late. Too late. We started eating breakfast at 11 am. I took a nap afterwards, and then it was 2:30. I had to let the cows out. The day went by pretty quickly. It took me over an hour to write the diary entry from the previous…
Living experience on a raw food farm – Day 27
Day 27 1/8/05 We woke up around 5:30 am this morning. I was getting picked up by Homer at 6:30 am and I wanted to help out a little bit before I went. We were going to an 8 hour conference by this Mennonite Nurse named Melissa who was giving a lecture on Ten Steps…
Living experience on a raw food farm – Day 26
Day 26 1/7/05 Tired, super tired, sore. Super tired and sore, super sore, sore. I woke up earlier, not necessarily early this morning. 6:00 am, we had to have a lot of packages out by 10:30. I had to get up earlier. I got out there, it was still dark. Peter was already in the…
Living experience on a raw food farm – Day 25
Day 25 1/6/05 We woke up earlier today. I had to leave early to go to Homer’s to slaughter 30 chickens. I had to do everything. I had to catch them today. It was hard at first, I found the trick was to go for the feet, then they can’t fight me as much. It…