thursday the 3rd

As Friday was the 4th (which just happened to be our annual Garlic Harvest too) we needed to focus on harvesting for Saturday's distribution.

In short, we got:
Carrots
Cabbage
Cilantro
Parsley
Lettuce
Summer Squash
Scallions

While we're still pulling from W1, we actually are/have been pulling quite a bit from Y.



E & I finished harvesting activities with about 1 hour left in the day.
Winter squash is right outside my door and needed a little collinear hoe attention, so we went for it.

The crazy saturated green of the squash leaves. Nutz!!





After work we watched another tape. This one was a seminar given by Anne & Eric Nordell of Beech Grove Farm in PA to future farmers. It had to do with crop rotation/cover cropping/cultivation and horsepower (which I find truly interesting as a possible avenue for work power). Much learned. Much more to learn.

I picked up H from the train station mid-evening. An extended holiday visit. Nice.
-Though-
We were in the office around 10:45pm when we heard tires screech and the unmistakable crunch of metal just outside. We ran with a lantern to find a girl standing on the road just outside the entrance. Her car (and she) had done a 180, flipped over and landed in a ditch by the road. She was not even scratched. Thank goodness. A wonder. A speeding truck had forced her to veer off the road and she lost control.

Good gravy, how lucky?? The authorities showed up shortly after and she was tended to. Thanks guys.

Kinda nice to know that we have systems in place to help in case of emergencies.. even if your emergency is on a small back road in the middle of farm country NY.

Dig.