Our First eggs

 

I feel badly, bitching about how hot it is.  I'm harvesting okra this morning, then field peas - I finally stand up straight & look up at the little house next door, the guy on the roof laying asphalt shingles.  Roofing, damn, it could be worse.  Then I wonder if he's looking down at me thinking "field peas, jesus, it could be worse"  then I realize, nah, roofers don't have sympathy for anyone.  Last winter seemed to last for so long, the ritual everyday: jeans, big socks, boots, long sleeved t-shirt, wool sweater, fleece & finally the puffy coat.  Every morning breaking ice in the chicken waterers, refilling them in the house because the hose was frozen, kicking turnips that heaved out of the soil in the little garden, thinking "I can't wait 'till summer."

 

Every year it seems we have a little more success, a little less failure & this year is no different.  Better tomato harvest? Check.  Bad staking? Check.  More cucumbers? Check.  More cucumber beetles?  Check.  It's hard not to take the successes for granted then become mired down in the failures.  Sometimes we have to snap ourselves out of it - "But look what we've done, we've only been here since last March, we didn't have ANY sugar snaps last year, we've doubled our CSA this year".  We have to speak in italics and all caps, keep reminding ourselves that the learning curve is steep, that mother nature is sometimes a groovy Joan Baez hippy chick with organic whole wheat flour under her fingernails, but more often, a 16 year old mean girl with a Prada bag who likes to stand you up when you're counting on her, who shrugs & says "Whatever" if you reproach her even a little bit.

 

Hope you like the Watermelon Margarita recipe, which is in the "Products" section of the site.  Don't bother fishing seeds out of the melon, just put 'em in the blender - this will add a conscience soothing healthy dimension to drinking tequila.  By the way, we only grow melons with seeds, I don't know why some people acquired an aversion to them, all the while buying pumpkin seeds and flax seeds and who knows what else to beef up the fibre in their diets.  Anyhow, if we grew seedless watermelons, how would we save the seed to plant next year?  Just something to ponder while you're out on your porch this summer, shelling field peas & drinking margaritas.....

 

Thanks so much for coming out to market, buying from us and other local vendors, we sure love to see you each & every time. 

 

Kim, Rohan, PorkChop & Emily Spinach

 

 

 

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