August Trifecta

As usual August started with a trifecta of group weeks. 7 families came in for a fun Family Week full of ninja, swimming, home repair, and gardening. Groups of high school students joined us for the last two weeks of our summer. Past staff member Jenny, Jerusalem Farmers (Jessie, Abhi, Andrea, and Nathaniel), Sr. Paula, and Chair of the Board Nick visited us for various lengths of stays in August.
Since it was the end of the summer, that meant we said goodbye to our last few sojourners, Natalie, Paul, Pat, and Niki.
 We worked mainly in Clarksburg with a few homes in Doddridge County. Here are some pictures of the various roofs and porches from the month. We spent time canning tomatoes and sauerkraut with Ronnie. The Todd home also received new siding, soffit, and fascia.

JJ's new white tin roof

Chris and Sabrina's new porch 

Another view of the porch

Sandy's new roof

Pam's roof from the last week of the summer

Farmer John gave us all a safer trip down to the lumber

June!

Summer on the Farm means we were full of cool high school volunteers and chaperones. We've also welcomed our first group of Summer Sojourners: Clare, Alison, Lauren, and Betsy!
Zack and Lauren continued a roof over Rosemary's trailer.
Allyson built a porch for Melissa and Eric, repaired Tony and Eva's roof, and re-shingled the dorms.

 

 Susan painted and created a roof for a well at Nanny's, drywalled a room in Salem, and built a nice porch for Jane with Kayla.

Robby re-shingled Anna's roof and put tin on Carla's.
Matt painted Sue and Tom's trim and put on new facia. He also worked at Carla's.

 Kayla joined staff at the beginning of the month. After a some on-site training, she built a porch in Folsom.

May Update

Most of the staff headed to Kansas City to visit the new Jerusalem Farm for their dedication Mass!
Jessie and Jordan are leading up this new endeavor with support from Avila. 5 other staff members also live there: Andrea, Abhi, Zack, Kristina, and Anne. Check them out at jerusalemfarm.org

Soon after we got back, we started our busy but wonderful summer group week season: tons of volunteers, the arrival of excited sojourners, blossoming gardens, warm weather, and lots of home repair and hospitality! Siding, tin roofs, underpinning, gardening, drywall, demolition, and home crew filled our two college weeks. We ventured to Clarksburg, West Union, and Pennsboro to work with our wonderful homeowners.

Poles for the green beans

Siding at Dave's

New tin at Idonia's