RECAP WEEK 1

I’m sorry to say this entry may be a bit dry, but I’m sure some of you must be wondering how I’ve been spending my days here. So I present you with a day-by-day account of my first week on the farm:

Monday: Harvest Day!

6-8:30am Washing greens (baby kale, arugula, mizuna, mustard, spinach, and large curly kale)

8:30-9am Picnic breakfast in the field

9-12 Out in the fields harvesting peppers, lettuce and cucumbers

12-2pm Lunch at Morning Glory (e.g. my house)

2-5 Harvested beets and beans

5-6 Dinner

6-8 Washing up, relaxing and socializing

8 Watched an episode of Black Adder with everyone in the house

9 Bedtime

Tuesday: Harvest Day Round 2 (not necessarily the norm :)

6-8 Picked sweet corn in the rain in a field of mosquitoes

8-9 Breakfast (we harvested our own raspberries)

9-12 Picked tomatoes in the fields and the greenhouse

12-2 Lunch of aforementioned tomatoes and eggs from our chickens

2-5 Processing (e.g. putting what we’ve picked the past two days into CSA boxes that are delivered to customers tomorrow)

5-9 The evening followed much as the following day, but we played Apples to Apples instead of watching a show

Wednesday

7 Woke up, had breakfast, got ready

8-12 Harvested the last of the ripe tomatoes, removed dead/bad leaves from beds of Swiss chard

12-2 Surprise going away party for Kristine (one of the Germans) and Marianna, who’s moving to Madison to start school after living on the farm for two years

2-5 Picked onions and weeded some tomato beds

5-8 Ate dinner, played cards, went to bed early

Thursday

7 Up and at ‘em

8-12 Planted seed flats of lettuce and kohlrabi

12-2 Community lunch with everyone in the comm

unity center

2-5 Thinning mo

re Swiss chard in the garden

5-6 Dinner

6-8 Painting aprons for kindergartners with Christine

8-10 Watched a movie and bedtime

Friday: First day of milking!

5 Wake up (it is still pitch black out)

5:30-8:30 Milking in

the barn

9:30-12 Out in the fields after breakfast harvesting potatoes

12-2 Lunch

2-5 Weeding and hoeing the side garden

5-7 Downtime

7-8 Community potluck at the community center followed by a short cello performance by Arianna, a 9 yr old

9 Bed!

Saturday

5 Wake up

5:30-8:30 Milking – I got to bottle fee

d the calf

that was born last night :)

9:30-12 Out in the garden weeding one of the tomato beds and thinning Swiss chard

12-2 Lunch, laundry

2-4 Bike ride into town (~5 miles) to get a coffee and check out the library with three of the other girls that intern here

5-8 Head to the Franconia Sculpture Garden to listen to live music and look at the artwork

9-11 Try to figure out my plans for after the farm… Bedtime

Sunday: SLEEP IN!!!

7 Sleeping in was a failure, woke up unfortunately early, read in bed

11 Brunch of crepes with homemade apple-strawberry jam

1:30-4 Played tennis with Asher, Lilli, Johanna, Steven and Scott

5 Dinner

7-8:30 Played cards with Mary

9 Bed

Riveting, I’m sure, but actually quite a fun and learning-filled week. I’m really enjoying my time here, the people are great, and after a week am really getting into the swing of things. I’ll write back soon with something a little more exciting to read. CIAO.