Basketball, Bunnies, and Botany

What do these three have in common? On Friday October 14, 2011, the Westmont College basketball team came to the Five Loaves Farm to kick off their team retreat by doing a little work with us. Over the course of about three hours they installed 780 feet of bunny fencing and cut the beginnings of our botany trail. The trail is in need of some more permanent maintenance and these guys put some sweat into it! The bunnies that live on our native hillside love the farm, especially the tender young plants when their own habitat is so dry and brown. It is just like the cartoons; really do eat carrots. The fence has successfully kept the bunnies out ever since. Hallelujah! We ended the evening with pizza. There is only one creature that eats more than the bunnies that used to get into our fields, and that would be a hungry basketball player! Thank you coach John Moore for organizing this, coach Jeff Azain for showing the guys how to sweat, and to the entire team for helping out.