A new intern has arrived, which is exciting. Someone to share the work with is good, but I am a bit reluctant to start sharing the cabin which I have been greedily enjoying alone. Looking forward to have someone to work with though and outdoors work has picked up so there is plenty for both of us to be doing. Started pruning the fruit trees. Right now I am just identifying and removing deadwood from the trees. Jerome is going to go around and marking the trees he wants pruned and I will go around and prune marked branches. The prunings are fed to the rabbits which eat the bark and buds off. They are then mulched. 

We have started adding to our aquaculture tanks. I just put in a bundle of water lettuce collected from RMI's ponds and the tanks will be ready for fish in a few weeks. We had a few volunteers up the other day and got a lot of work done. Thinned out new starts, planted more seeds, built a bench for the sauna, and put the conduit bender together and began bending conduits for a small outdoor hoop-house. Weather remains springy with a flux between sun and clouds. Looking forward to Thursday and Friday because we are going down to the high school and planting a cover crop,  with some students, on the two future agricultural fields.