Harvesting in the rain

Friday:

Logan and I arrive later to the farm than desired.  We get in a couple of hours of harvesting before the rain picks up.  Then, the mild downpour ensues for about 5 hours.  As soon as we’re done harvesting, the rain ends!

Admittedly, I was pretty miserable. I’ve grown soft in these last 25 years of life.  I guess this is what farming year-round is like -it shows you where you’re soft.  Anyway, not harvesting wasn’t an option: we had big order from the co-op and a pre-thanksgiving farmers’ market to attend (thankfully, it was really busy).  So, we buckled down and did the harvest. We had help from three friends for an hour and a half, and that helped a lot.

Maybe next year we’ll have so much planted in the fall and winter and we’ll do a CSA so we can afford to keep help on board.  That would be nice.  I think we’ll do that. 

Another photo…check it out! - this is the garlic patch (in the foreground) before it sprouted.

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