Earth Dance, Week #14

Weekly Produce List
Earth Dance Newsletter, July 15, 2010
Member "Camp on the Farm" July 23-25, 2010
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The first thing I heard this morning when I got out of my car was, "Wednesday Special!"  Matt was back from Arizona...what a nice way to start my day.    : )

Meet our new interns for the week ... Kaylee and Lona! 

Kaylee (in the blue t-shirt) is a friend of Matt's from school in LaCrosse, and she will be helping out for the week.  She is tent camping on the farm! 

Lona is doing a week's internship related to her schooling.  She is orginally from Florida and has been living in the Cities now for many years.  She is a co-owner of the Matchbox coffee shop in Minneapolis.  She plans to eventually move back to Florida and grow organic medicinal herbs on land her family owns.

Here's Bushra with our first harvest of the day ... chard.  After we had bundled enough chard and brought it down to the cooler, Lona and I harvested and bundled chives, and everyone else split into groups and harvested other things.

Kaylee and Bushra washing radicchio.

Matt was carrying around a little friend today.

He actually had this whole big long name for him, and I was going to have Matt spell it for me, but I forgot to ask him. If I remember to ask him next week, I'll post it.

The guys harvested new potatoes ... gorgeous!

Mark found a potato that looked like a teddy bear face.

Before lunch, half of us harvested beans, while the other half worked on harvesting squash.

We got this part of the harvest down to the cooler, just as it started to rain, and we took an hour for lunch.

The rain let up just as we finished lunch, and we got back to work and finished harvesting the beans. Kaylee, Lona and Bushra bagged the beans, while Mark, Matt, Conner, Riley and I packed the boxes for the members.

This afternoon was a hot one, and Norm surprised us by making a raspberry icee drink in his blender and going around, passing out cupfuls of it to everyone.  We even got seconds, and boy, did it taste amazing, delicious and refreshing (sorry, I was too busy drinking it to remember to take a picture).

Bushra and Conner took turns carting the member boxes to the cooler after they were packed.

The Harvest:
Chard, chives, radicchio, raspberries, broccoli, new potatoes, radishes, beets, summer squash, kohlrabi, butterhead lettuce, green beans.