Let me introduce a few of the people who have to put up with me now.

This is Heidi displaying some of her amaranth she had to harvest early because her amaranth is being grown for seed and a couple of the plants appeared to be a hybrid and we don't really want that for our seed mix. Heidi is the monsoon intern and works with me in the seed bank on Tuesdays and Fridays, she the one teaching me how germination is done. Heidi is from Canada and is about 6' tall!

Jason is the Rain forest intern and he LOVES snakes and reptiles. Here he is talking to a tour group about the rain forest as well as getting ready to plant yams at the bases of the melaleuca trellises seen on the right side of the picture. 

This is Jenna her official title is Intern Wife, she is Jason's lovely wife and volunteers many hours every week in various areas and is giving a tour on this occasion.

Debbie our New Zealand native, who is currently responsible for the Lowlands area of the Global village. She will be training me to take over next month AHHhHHHhhhh! 

Danny (farm manager), Debbie and Phoebe working on setting poles for a new trellis in the Lowlands. Phoebe is my roommate, she is from Champaign Ill. area and is the other new intern at ECHO. Phoebe is also around 6' tall and Debbie is about 5'10". In all the height average among the 6 female interns is rather high. I think the shortest female intern is 5'7". I am thus far still the tallest intern.

So here are a few of the people I rub shoulders with everyday hopefully it will help to have a face to put with names as I throw them out from time to time.