sun rain soil: Earth Dance, Week #13

ANNOUNCEMENT:
Member Work Day!
Friday, July 9, 2010
Dinner and bonfire at the end of the day!
For more information,
call or e-mail Earth Dance Farm

Weekly Produce List

Earth Dance July 8 Newsletter

Started the day out today, washing Butterhead lettuce with Bushra. It's so big and gorgeous, it looks like she's holding a bouquet of flowers!

Stephanie bagging the Butterhead lettuce after it's been washed.

Riley, taking scallions to the cooler, while Mark stays behind and continues harvesting.

Next, we harvested turnips...here's me holding one of the bigger ones.

Adriana counting to make sure we've harvested enough turnips. The sky in the background shows the threatening clouds that intermittently passed by throughout the day, though we never did see any rain. It was quite a beautiful day for harvesting and packing.

Bushra at the washing station, washing the turnips.

Laurie took a photo of the 'turnip washers;' Adriana, Stephanie, Bev and Bushra.

Here, we put the boxes back together (after the members have carefully flattened them for transport), to get ready for packing.

While we were working with the turnips, the guys were harvesting carrots.

Norm and Conner washing the carrots.

Putting them in bunches for the member boxes.

Placing the carrots into the member boxes.

Look at this crazy 'braided' carrot Adriana and Stephanie found!

Here's a close-up.

Preparing the scallions for the member boxes.

Mark and Riley back from harvesting kohlrabi. Here, they are trimming them for packing.

One of the farm cats catches a nap on the back bumper of the Earth Dance delivery van.

We finished up by 5:30 today, which was quite surprising, since Matt was in Arizona with his family this week. Don't let that fool you, Mattie ole boy.....we need you!!!!!