wow...my blogger is now partially in english. but still, partially in spanish. ah well. it's actually pretty representative then of my brain.
apparently I haven't written since July. oops. So here's some fun updates. I went to NOFA and my friend MK entered the pie eating contest. Michael started it a while back (probably eons ago...but he would say a decade, when he used to work for NOFA) and then it got a bit out of hand. Somehow the value we give to food during an eating contest didn't really match the value of food at an organic farming conference. So they have become more creative. Now, the individual pie eating is done with chopsticks, and MK entered the two-person contest, where you share a pie with a partner, and feed them the pie. oh, and you're both blindfolded, just for fun.
I went up to Hancock, NH for the weekend, which was amazing. We went on a great canoe trip where you start out on a lake, hit up a great rope swing (we watched one guy swing out, do a back flip off the end of the rope before hitting the water), check out a bald eagle nest, portage into a little pond (without motor boats, so lovely and quiet), portage back into the other end of the lake, go swimming off elephant rock (although there are 3 different spots in hancock called elephant rock), and then come back.
Meanwhile at work, the students graduated in September. We have a couple weeks before the next class arrives October 1st. So we're harvesting a ton. We had our first frost warning last weekend, so we spent the whole day on Friday harvesting peppers, eggplant and basil to try to get them in before we lost them. But it looks like we have escaped the worst of it so far. In the meantime, Nate and I are taking turns going to market on our own. So if you are around boston, come see me on Thursdays at the Belmont Market! and if not, here's a picture so you know what you're missing...
