Farm Family Fun Week Five

This fifth week at the farm was both fun and freezing as the temperature spiked between rainy Monday in the thirties,   Thursday in the high eighties and wrapping up with Friday and Saturday in the forties again with even a bit of snow thrown in for good measure. It was definitely a lesson in the extreme changeability of Colorado weather, as well as a test in our endurance of miserable situations as we learned hand weeding beets on one of the cold days. As our crew leader Katy said Thursday, "You might feel weird, so just know that." She was right, as completely numb, tingling hands for three hours definitely does feel weird. Some awesome times were had this week too, as we got to plant our heirloom tomatoes and peppers into our demo gardens, and (almost) our entire intern group got together for a family meal on Friday. Here are some snapshots of our week.

May 7

Ian in the car after we were released on Monday after
harvesting spinach in the freezing rain. Thumbs
up for half days!

May 8

Tomatoes in the foreground, Chris in the demo garden planting our heirloom crop.

May 9

Chris, Lucia, and Ian, with our boss, Isaac in the lead, going to fix the vineyard
trellising. This entailed digging some new holes and setting some new posts.

May 10

Megan and I doing teamwork to hand week our beet field. This day was our high
eighties day, when we both got sunburned. The following day we continued
to week in the afternoon in the rain, snow and thirty degree temperatures.
We kept ourselves going by making a list of warm things, and telling
stories to each other of people who were colder that us,
like lost mountainclimbers .

May 11

Group picture on the morning of cold, miserable Friday! From left to right; Elena,
Kyle, Alyssa, Tanea, Lucia, Ken (in the bomb poncho), Justin, Ian, Shaun, Megan,
Katie, and Chris. MIA- Jacob, and Isaac. I'm taking the pic, or course. Close to everyone,
so not bad. This day we spent the morning cutting rhubarb, planting potatoes, and
digging holes. The afternoon was more of the same,
with some beet weeding throwninto the mix. 

May 12

Saturday was our day with the CSA working members volunteering their time.
We harvested heirloom corn from last season to feed our chickens. This is
Elena and Jacob in the interns' awesome beast of a Ford 100 Explorer pick up.

Bonus Foto

Partial pic or our table Friday night for our intern family dinner. Justin did an amazing
job cooking for everyone and all our different eating styles, and it was super fun
to have everyone together to share a meal and relax after a super challenging week!
Megan, Jacob, Lucia, Elena, Shaun, Kyle the top of Chris's head, and my bangs,
clockwise from left.

I hope everyone is still enjoying the pictures. It's fun to start to see a little more green growth emerging as the weeks progress. Looking forward to some warmer temperatures next week, and soon some more planting!

XO,

Val