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Keeping Up

July 2nd, 2009
DeepSeeded Community Farm | Blog

Trying to keep up with the farm this time of year is intense! The sowing, planting, and weeding continue, while the harvests consume more and more of each week. This morning I spoke with my friend John Gary, who owns G-Farm, and he was talking about the difficulty of pulling in his garlic crop when it takes all his time to keep up with the regular work. When Molly and I sat down to figure how many hours I’ve been working each week, the number we came up with was 80! Honestly, that’s about ten hours too many for me. Right now, I’m trying to muster the energy to re-evaluate the budget to see if I can hire more help.

With the work being as demanding as it is, it’s a good thing I love what I do! Here’s a few recent pics:

$This week\$ Sungolds ripening

1st purple pepper (hiding near the bottom)

Tags: harvest, work load, hours

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