Frost is speckling the grass in the early mornings and winds are bustling through, stripping the trees of fire red and brown leaves. For the first time, this week I felt the bite of cold lettuce during morning harvest - my fingers went a little numb. Thankfully it was a light harvest week because of Fall Pause and students on their break there was hardly anything to harvest for dining hall orders. However, other operations at the farm have been in full swing - this week we successfully finished cracking all of the garlic bulbs for seed and planted all 700lbs of it. It was all of our first times getting to use the transplanter for this, which made the process much faster. Yesterday and today we worked on mulching the entire field with straw and thankfully we had the extra hands of volunteers and student workers to complete these tasks.
Many of us are pumped up for tonight’s annual Harvest Fest where there will be live music, dancing, warm soup, cider, and more. Additionally, I think many of us are also coming to terms with the fact that there are only 4 more weeks left of the farm apprenticeship. I personally am both excited and saddened by the reality of finishing my time here at the Dickinson College Farm and moving on to my next adventure.
Harmony
