Another Friday harvest is in the truck, waiting for anxious shoppers at the Saturday morning Growers’ Market at the Nevada County Fairgrounds.  It wasn’t easy to get it all in, we needed a few trucks and trailers, but I managed to harvest it all by myself.  Yep, just another days’ work.

Not.  The only factor impeding our normal-sized harvest was the 102 degree weather - the third 100+ degree day in a row.  This is the fourth 100+ heat wave of the year (the hottest it got at the farm was right around the 7th of July at 110 degrees…and it was completely socked in with smoke from all of the Northern Cali wildfires - very hard day).   It seems like a lot of heat this year, but we have also had our share of unseasonably cool weather.  Not as much in the normal range…all of the nighttime temps have been about 4 degrees higher than the average.

Since the dawn of consciousness and self-reflection in man, we have thought the end was right around the corner - maybe just a metaphor for the impending fate of our bodies.  Now is no different…there are many new-age-ists who agree that we are on the threshold of the end.

At least we got a really good harvest of peppers before it all crashed in on us. We’re bringing orange, yellow and red bells.  Jimmy Nardello Italian sweet peppers.  Pimentos.  Jalapeños. Gypsy peppers.  It’s all in the back of the truck, waiting for mañana.