frosty mornings

We've had some cold mornings recently (several light frosts and also a heavy frost). Tomatoes are gone and we harvest more things the day ahead of time. Although lettuce and most of our greens can withstand a frost, we can't harvest them while they are frozen or they wilt into mush. So we harvest them either the day ahead or in the late morning when they have thawed. This morning we harvested the rest of the cabbage to put it into cold storage - super cold cutting cabbage with your bare hands! it's incredible to see the steam rise off all the compost piles...and to see your breath in the cabin in the morning.




A couple weeks ago Michael and I drove down to Poughkeepsie for a CRAFT visit to the Poughkeepsie farm Project. It's a group I've known about for awhile since Kate, my roommate in Lincoln, was their assistant farm manager before working at the food project. They are doing a community seed bank and have been doing a bunch of seed saving with the Green Teen youth group they work with. I got some cilantro seeds from there (I could use them as coriander, but I'm going to save them to start my own thing!) Here's a hawk on top of their meditation garden. Afterwards we went to an Irish pub in town and managed to catch some British soccer. This week we saw the movie "Trouble the Waters", shot by an aspiring rap artist in the 9th ward of New Orlearns during Katrina. Definitely worth seeing. Tomorrow we're going to a Peter Singer talk at Williams. So much happening around here!