With the new moon comes new life on the farm. After a relatively tense weekend among the group, today we found new energy and shared joy with the new task of harvesting food!!
Yesterday was the summer solstice, and today the first CSA pick-up day of the summer season. Our subscribers are finally able to enjoy the fruits of our labor, as are we! We had a salad at lunch today made exclusively of our harvest: the sweetest cabbage, the freshest kale, the juiciest radishes and their greens. We also picked sweet japanese turnips, so sweet they're best eaten raw. Tonight We'll have some of the white onions, shallots, or garlic, sauteed with zucchini and some combination stuffed into squash blossoms with fresh oregano and thyme, and perhaps some local goat cheese. All these (except the blossoms and the cheese), as well as some of the tastiest arugula I've eaten, were in the CSA boxes today. We interns have also bought a fruit share and a grain share from local farmers partnering with Alan in the CSA. These came today, so we've got apricots and peaches, blue corn meal, rye and wheat flour, oats, beans, and more! The harvest has just begun, and there is lots of cooking to be done.
There are also signs of new life all over the farm. We saw a nest of tiny finches in one of the plum trees, and I hear the cries of hatchlings from a nest box outside the window as I write. There are lots more around the farm (despite the loss of the batch of eggs in a nest box we saw being invaded by a gopher snake a few weeks ago). For about a week now, we occasionally have seen glimpses of a harem of turkeys with about a dozen young, wandering about the pond or down the fire road or into the tall grasses around the property. Today on the farm, once again, I feel joy and wonder and a sense of peace.
Welcome Summer!!
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