Not too much to say this week, except, what an incredible week! We are predominantly harvesting now every week and I cannot get over pulling veggies out of the ground, ready to eat, that I put in the ground as a seed or a tiny plant last spring! I will let this week's pictures speak for themselves as the lovely harvesting and crazy cool August temperatures has put everybody in a good mood! Here are the fotos of the week:
Aug 13
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| Even weeding can be beautiful on the farm! Elena and Jacob, with a weedy headdress, Monday afternoon, weeding the parsnips in Fisher. |
Aug 14
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| Nate, kissing a very unusual Nadia Eggplant in our Fisher Field during harvest on Tuesday. |
Aug 15
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| Katie in a corn field in Matsuta 11, our first sweet corn harvest on Wednesday! There were so many ready ears, we harvested twenty five macro bins for wholesale and CSA!! This picture is during a break when the crew waited in the field while the tractor went to switch out the full wagon. |
Aug 16
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| Justin, Emma, and Arlo in our first potato harvest of German Butterballs in our Bridges Two Field! Note the particularly lovely heart shape of the potato in Emma's hands, as well as the matching flannels of the guys!! It was basically fifty five degrees this Thursday! In August! What?? |
Aug 17
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| Basically, the best Friday ever! This photo taken harvesting yellow wax beans in Black Two Field. Yeah, no one told me they were doing the funny bean poses... At least I have the feather and the nerd glasses! Elena, Ken, me and Victoria from left the right! |
In wrap up, the harvesting our crew focused on this week was Taxi tomatoes, green peppers, Nadia and Rosa Bianca eggplant, green beans, yellow beans, sweet corn, German Butterball new potatoes, jalapenos, and even some heirloom peppers and tomatoes! This isn't even counting the work of the other crews with ready chard, beets, eggplant, kale, cilantro and spinach! A lovely week to be outside. Harvest time is definitely busy, but slower in the lovely way of observing nature's progress and enjoying the abundant gifts of gorgeous, fresh, organic produce, that we have been working all year to see manifest.
XOXO,
Val
While one garden thrives and is harvested another waits for its time to be. Although it may seem to be neglected, it is being quiet and still, open to all that the earth and the air and the sun and the moon may yet give to it. Sg
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