Day 47

Dark Red One: Moulin Rouge, Pink Ones: Strawberry Lemonade and Yellow Ones: Teddy Bear

Harvest Day! We started off with the asparagus, which is now growing out and looks like weed bushes, but there's still some little guys hanging in there! We moved on to strawberries that are still fighting that unknown bug (the extension agent didn't know what species so he shipped it off to the university) (that seemed a little long for a parenthesis don't you think?) (but I'm keeping it). So the berries are suffering a bit but I still managed to find some interesting ones!

Asparagus Field with now asparagus bushes

Strawberry with an attitude

 Next, we harvested Arugula, Bok Choi, and snap peas, snap it! Erica made a yummy lunch, we partied on some vegetable hot pot and strawberry salad with cilantro lime dressing. After lunch I socialized with Ricky, Neely the office manager, said Hi to the kitchen staff and chef Andrew before getting back to farm duties. I dutied it up, that didn't sound right, I got back to business and picked up the onions we sat out yesterday and ALL the garlic flowers. The boys picked up Pak Choi and komatsuna or something like it, all these Asian greens look alike.

Erica put the onions in the greenhouse to cure. Curing must take place for the onions to be stored for any length of time. You can cure onions by placing them in a warm, well-ventilated area until the necks are thoroughly dry. With warm temperatures, good air circulation and low humidity, curing should be completed within two weeks after harvest. Onions are best stored in a cool moderately dry area in ventilated containers. So back to the story, Erica laid all of them out in the greenhouse and had to move the squash to the big greenhouse. The rest of us, including Scott the sometimes Friday volunteer were playing around with flower bouquets and taking pictures, the tough side of farming.


Lastly, there was more English pea pickin', you know those only produce for two weeks? Gotsa get um while they're good! We finished up there and packed for market. And done.