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| Box 7: cantaloupe, fennel, dill, cilantro, basil, zucchini, sungold cherry tomatoes, variety of heirloom tomatoes, variety of sweet and hot peppers, red and white onions, garlic |
The leaves around us are starting to turn...at first I thought "those trees look stressed" but now I am out of denial and am well ready for the coming fall. It is only 18 days away really. So we have been getting rain and then more rain and them more...well, you get the picture. There actually is such a thing as too much because if the roots of our plants are sitting in water it impedes air passage and root rot. We are trying not to fret too much about it but we take our turns in the worrying department.
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| Happy Farmers |
So for the most part we look like this (see above) but obviously life on the farm is not always sunshine and I think that sometimes society paints this picture of living the farm life as hippyville and ease. Yeah, I do rock the tie-dye from 1997 on box days sometimes and when you find little surprises like the pepper below, you may feel a little "blissed out" until you loose your boots in the muck, a few chickens drown in the most recent downpour and your guinea pigs escape their outdoor cage and make for the wilderness.
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| What a surprise when making box day lunch, this pepper was so happy it was smiling :) |
Solar system is going in next week! We just got the call today that they are breaking ground next week. We are very excited to move in this direction because we really believe in being green in as many ways as possible and going solar has been on our list basically since birth :)
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| um, yeah....actually there is such a thing as too much rain. I Nearly dislocated a hip picking tomatoes and almost lost my boots too! |
