Peak Season

It's a been busy and heavy harvesting work up at Grant Farms this week. The packing shed where we take our vegetables and fruit to be received for shipment has been bustling and mad busy with huge cartons of squash going out for wholesale and skid steers zooming around everywhere taking wooden pallets full of boxed produces off wagons and onto trucks. The parking lot of the main office is filled with semis awaiting shipments, and there is a waiting line to get our goods into the shed for processing and storage. Isaac says that this is the height of the season right now. The next two weeks will be the busiest of the year and it definitely shows. We had a rain day this Wednesday, but it doesn't feel as though we were doing any less work, harvesting melons, tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, eggplant and green beans! We also said goodbye to Richie this week, and had a great send off party on Tuesday for him. Good luck in Steamboat man! We'll miss you! Here are the pics of the week:

Sept 10

Emma, spokes modeling some potatoes for us. Note that we have the magic school bus hooked up to tow the wagon on this day as well! Ridiculous. Chris, Kristen, Sarah, Katie, Arlo and Tanea's arm also featured.  

Sept 11 

Richie and Victoria on the wagon holding down boxes of wholesale eggplants on the way to the packing shed. Richie's last day. 

Sept 12

Rain Day!! No Pic.

Sept 13

Chris with a huge basket of leeks in Diamond One that we hand planted way back in April in the brutal wind!! Our boss told me I looked like I was gonna quit that day. I can't believe they are all grown up and ready for harvest! Yay!!

Sept 14

Kyle with the largest and most terrifying spider I've ever seen in Fischer Field. I was about to wipe the web aside to grab a tomato when I saw him. He was eating a bee!!!

Bonus Foto(s):

Leave it to Nate to find another weird tomato face! Pretty cute smile though, I must admit!

Five thirty harvesting green beans in Pie Three.

Rachel, Ryan, Nate, Tanea, Sarah, Stephanie, and Emma harvesting green beans for our preserving share members, Friday afternoon.

Have an awesome last few days of the summer season! The first day of fall is next Saturday, September 22nd. I am so, so sad to say goodbye to summer! Most typically, autumn is my favorite time of year, but this has been the best summer ever and it's hard to let it go. I can't believe we will only get about two more weeks out of our tomato plants this season. Mind blowing!! So, soak up the last rays of our sunny summer next week and get ready for a change in the weather, I already feel a nip in the air!

XO,

Val