Rock & Roll Farm

Wednesday! Jun 08 2005 // 2:08 pm //

Weather woes

CSA, Day 9; Market, Day 3

It’s been 90+ the last two days and we haven’t had rain in two weeks. Maybe longer. The ground is too hot to go barefoot, which is the prefered mode here. We’ve been taking swimming breaks in the pond/swamp. Yesterday it was so hot that we took an hour break at around 4p.m. That is totally unheard of around here. Breaks? What are those?

Market was slow again today, but fun. I made a t-shirt that says “Tantre” on the front, and on the back, “Who let them in?” I sold almost everything on the table, which is kind of nice. The reason we are there is more to distribute shares, but rocking-out at the table is what I like most about working on the farm.

The distribution this week is almost identical to last week. No spicy greens or asparagus, but tatsoi instead. Tatsoi is and asian green somewhere between spinach and arugula in taste. There’s a Korean woman who makes the best Kim Che with our tatsoi.

With the heat, a lot of our stuff has exploded in size in the last week. We had probably 1,000 heads of lettuce ready to go yesterday! The cow has been giving more milk lately, a mystery to all of us. We got three new chickens, and someone told me they are the breed that lay green eggs. I’ll believe it when I see it.