Everyday the sun comes up later, and on rainy days now it still seems totally dark when we wake up. this morning when I walked up to start harvesting the light was on in the barn as we got the carts ready to harvest for CSA distribution. After several weeks straight of lots of rain, we had a week of HOT dry weather - until today when we're rained in by Hurricane Hanna. Luckily this dry weather has also coincided with some of our big volunteer groups like Williams "where am I" orientation groups and a group from Kripalu, a nearby meditation and yoga retreat, who are doing a semester-long intensive retreat. So we've been busy doing lots of the BIG harvests - potatoes (red, white and purple!) and winter squash.
Two weeks ago my mom came up to visit for a long weekend. She helped us harvest lots and we cooked up lots of quesadillas for a big friday dinner with the Smiths and Zoati, an exchange student they're hosting from Kenya, and our baker Jenna. Then we drove out Saturday afternoon to meet my Cambridge roommates Liz, Emily and Charlene at Red Fire Farm, where they're members, for the tomato festival. We hung out with the dog, tried 75 different tomatoes, I ran into Amara, one of my old interns from the food project - overall it was a great day. And I got to say goodbye to Beck - he's getting adopted this weekend. Afterwards my mom and I went to dinner up at the People's Pint in Greenfield (always a favorite) and ran into Elise, who used to manage the Food Project farm. So it was a great day for catching up with old friends.
This week Becca and Josh also came to visit! We had a rather unsuccessful campfire (I think the wood was too wet, so we finally resigned ourselves to holding marshmallows over our burning pieces of newspaper until the marshmallow itself caught - not the most farmy experience but the smores were still worth it). and we had lots of ice cream at lunch after working with volunteers.
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