This week - the first 7am-5pm we'll do, starting now til September or so:
Put in all the middle planting of tomatoes (30 beds) and planted the sweet potatoes (15 beds). Spent a couple hours squishing potato beetles on the regular potatoes. Weeded onions, beans, and strawberries. Ate a few strawberries! Planted celery root, basil, and all the pick-your-own tomatoes and tomatillos. First week of harvesting and CSA distribution (Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday), and we had bok choi, spinach, arugula, red & green lettuce, broccoli, radishes, and salad turnips, for 250 people. Schmoozed with families at the distribution area, and met new volunteers. Watched the kildeer in the herb garden sit on her nest. Found a dead frog feet first in the bed where we were planting tomatoes, and got really grossed out. Saw where the deer are nibbling things. Saw a snake in the grass! Took row cover off the broccoli/cabbage/cauliflower field. Bruised knees on many rocks. Shooed birds out of the greenhouse. Spread fertilzer. Put gas in the farm truck. Ordered farm gloves, and returned them when they came (wrong size). Hoed lettuce. Drank coffee. Made lists...

1 comment:

Nadia said...

You have broccoli already?! I'm jealous. Birds in greenhouse=funny. We've got a nest of swallows in one of the barns. They get a little pissed at us when we go in there.