For five weeks now I have been living in the coastal hills of Cambria California. The farm that I’m volunteering at, Charon Springs Farm, is 120 acres , just a small chunk of land when compared to the hills that seems to go on forever in this region of the Pacific Coast.

I write this blog post as I spend my first morning at my host families urban permaculture site right off the Pacific Ocean 45 miles north of Los Angeles.