Earth Dance Newsletter, September 9, 2010
A little farm humor. : )
When I arrive this morning at 7:00, Genna and Mark are already busy setting up boxes. Fall is in the air, as the temperature this morning is in the 40s.
Each Thursday, when the full CSA boxes are delivered to the members, their empty boxes from the week prior are collected and stored in the delivery van until the next packing day.
Skyler, a friend of Noah's, started this week and will possibly be able to help through the end of the season.
This is Alissa, a friend of Mark's, who stopped by today to lend a hand for a few hours.
While Mark and Skyler go up to harvest squash, hot peppers and cucumbers, Genna and I head to the lower garden to harvest bell peppers. They range from green ...
... to red ...
... and all shades in between, due to different stages of ripening.
Next, Genna and I harvest and bundle chives for the members who will get this as a farmer's choice. I believe basil (or another herb) will go into the remainder of the member boxes this week.
Genna showed me this new chive garden she planted.
The gorgous chive bundles ... I can't wait to chop some of these into baked potatoes this weekend!
Skyler and Mark return from the field and wash their pepper harvest.
Norm and the interns had harvested these potatoes earlier in the week, and here, Mark, Skyler, Genna and I brush the majority of the dirt off them.
We break for a short lunch, and then we all go to work in the bean field. Far from the 40s we had this morning, this afternoon is perfect, at right around 70 and sunny. : )
The cows come up over the hill and keep us company while we pick beans.
Adding what we harvest today to what has already been harvested earlier in the week, we have a total of 5 crates of green beans to split among the members.
It's great to see Riley arrive after school. He and Mark get right to work cleaning up the leeks.
This is what the leeks look like right after they are havested.
And, this is what they look like after Mark and Riley are finished with them.
While the guys prepare the leeks, Genna and I bag green beans.
Genna takes us out for one last harvest before we finish packing the member boxes ...
... tomatoes! ... in all degrees of ripening ... green, yellow, orange, red ...
... and we do our best to choose the nicest ones for the members!
Mark finds this little guy hopping around the tomato patch. We snap this photo and then let him go.
All finished packing the boxes, and now we haul them to the cooler.
Getting dark ... but, we get everything loaded into the cooler for the night, and we finish up at 7:50 ... not bad, almost 1/2 hour better than last Wednesday! : )
This Week's CSA Box:
Potatoes, Roma tomatoes, slicing tomatoes, kale, peppers (bell and/or hot), onions, garlic, leeks, chives (herbs - farmer's choice), summer squash, raspberries (rolling), melon (rolling), green beans.
These were a couple of yummy things we made from a combination of items from this, and last, week's boxes. My husband chopped and sauted potatoes, onions and green beans. And, I made a 'V8' juice from cucumbers, beets, tomatoes, kale, garlic (carrots, lemon and ginger)!
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