delicious!

So I'm currently WWOOFing at Kiriwai Women's Farm, in the Wairarapa region outside of Wellington. I have some really funny stories I can tell about this place but that will have to wait until next time. I just wanted to share what I did yesterday and today:

Yesterday I dug two HUGE holes and planted Phoenix Palm trees along the entrance way to the farm. While shoveling some compost to fertilize the newly planted trees me and Marlis, the WWOOFer host, discovered a patch of purple potatoes, so we harvested them. I got to play in the dirt and it was like finding hidden treasure each time you found a potato. We then gathered up some stinging nettles to have for dinner that night, and we roasted the hand-dug, purple potatoes, had a salad with lettuce and tomatoes from the garden, and made stinging nettle soup with onion and garlic. I also ate a bite of aloe vera for "dessert" (that's a joke, aloe vera tastes horrible but it's good for you and it's fun to eat it). Oh and then we watched The Bachelor all night. Weird, but true.

Today, Marlis decided we weren't doing any work (yay! I'm really sore from digging yesterday too), so we took a road trip to Cape Palliser, which is the southernmost part of the North Island and it has a seal colony along the water. So we made cheese sandwiches and drove an hour and a half to the tip of the island, found the mama and baby seal colony, sat and watched them in the sunshine, ate our lunch, and drove back to the farm. Along the drive we could see all the way across Cook Strait to the snow-capped Kaikoura Mountains on the South Island. Tonight we will probably eat more potatoes, some kumara (Maori sweet potato), and more delicious veggies from the garden, along with mint tea (also from the garden). I am in hippie heaven!