July 14

Last night I went to a "field day" through an organization H belongs to called Land Stewardship Project. Their goals include helping small-scale farmers with just about every aspect of their business. They hold "Farm Beginnings" classes every year, support political initiatives that assist farmers and, among many other things, promote and organize these "field days" at different farms around the region for people interested in a particular topic. I was at one earlier this summer that discussed soil fertility. Last nights was at a farm that has a CSA with 130 members and they showed us around their farm and some of their processes for filling those orders. It was very interesting to see their set-up.

Another hot and muggy day. A brief storm blew through, but didn't change the pattern. More of the same for the rest of the week, I guess. 

Today, we finished up the first harvest of the green beans (it was started Monday for the CSA boxes) and we finished up the garlic (pulled the rest of the plants, tied them in bundles of 10 or so, and tied the bundles in the barn to dry out). Grand total on the garlic...over 800 bulbs.

We also did some more weeding (strawberries today) and started some prep for Pizza tomorrow before the weather got the best of us. 

Can't help but wonder what the count will be this week for Pizza Night!!!