We hosted the first farm visit with the C.R.A.F.T. (Collaborative Regional Alliance for Farmer Training) program last Monday. It was great to meet interns and farmers from organic farm in the area. Looking forward to the next meeting!
On Fridays we've started going to the Orleans Farmers Market. We are on to our third week now. It's nice to see customers coming back for more greens and we've been getting kudos for our spinach!
The routine is setting in nicely. Now that things are going, it's nice to see the progress of the vegetables and all the hard work that is going into them pays off. Very tasty! I used some baby spinach to make pesto the other day; delicious!
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| Daizy & Gideon harvesting swiss chard and kale under the row cover |
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| Swiss chard, all bundled up and ready to sell |
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| The cold room where we store our veggies before going to market |
We planted potatoes on Thursday, very cool process. Basically I had to shove potatoes down a pipe as fast as I could without dropping them all over the place. The machine is shaped so it parts the soil, I drop the potato, and it covers it up after. It's a really fun job!
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| Getting the potatoes ready |
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| The potato planting contraption attached to the back of the tractor |
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| I threw the potatoes in there. |
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| Spinach, carrots, peas |
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| What's under there Jonny?? |
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| Driving back to the shed after planting |
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| Jonny filling up the Massey |
Tomorrow I am getting a comrade! Another intern will join the team and help us out until september. Hope he enjoys the work as much as I do!
I'll take more pictures this week! Till then,
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