There are times in the season when we have to do so many things at once, and it is never entirely clear how it will all happen. Tuesdays and Wednesdays are our big farming days--the days when we are most able to focus on the work that is not related to picking and selling vegetables.
This week, in two blazing hot days, we pulled ALL the garlic from both farms and stashed it in the greenhouse. We were trying to get it done before the rain, and of course those were the days when it was in the mid 90s and super humid. On those same days we also built a new compost pile out of hot green grass (just mowed) and we prepared ground and seeded a lot of summer cover crop. On Tuesday afternoon we were waiting in line, like an airport with its planes all lined up on the runway. There was one tractor we all needed--for seeding cover crop and digging garlic and unrolling the bales for the compost pile and maybe even more flail mowing to get ready for more cover crop.
On those same days, we also packed and delivered your CSA shares and also packed and delivered our biweekly order of 195 shares to the Crossroads CSA. So satisfying that none of us got heat stroke! So very satisfying to have so much garlic under cover. Maybe we grew enough to get us all through the winter!
