Plant and Harvest

Today is the first CSA pickup of the week so the crew was out early harvesting. They have two pickups here, one in Grand Junction and I think a couple more that I have yet to learn about. It is quite the operation with multiple CSAs, four farmer's markets and fruit shares. Every day there is something except for Monday. They are bringing vegetables to Telluride on Fridays and Moab on Saturdays. It's a long haul but it sounds like it will be worth it, especially once the peaches are ready. (For those of you who might read this and plan to attend the Bluegrass Festival in Telluride, stop by the stand and say hello to Deb and my favorite lady in the west, Marykate.)

Jola and I took our time getting up this morning, he is sleeping so great with all this sun and hard work. We are staying at Thomas Cameron's house which is about a half mile walk from the farm. We have our own room and for the next four days we have the house to ourselves because Thomas is on the river with his daughter. It's quite and peaceful here. We walked down to the farm around 9:30 and went right out to the fields to finish the weeding we started yesterday. It's a very therapeutic and rewarding task. Jola even helped out a bit and was pulling some of the weeds. He fell asleep and I was able to lay him down in the field while I worked. He now slumbers on the couch in the intern house as I write.

The other major task today is planting another succession of seeds. Jola and I will return to the field later in the afternoon when it is cooler and finish transplanting the lettuce from the shade house. I am amazed at the constant work that is necessary to support the CSA's and markets. I have a renewed appreciation for the crew at Crooked Sky Farms because they not only have to do all this work but they do it in ridiculous temperatures. I think it might be a great idea to plan a work day, maybe in the fall, so we have the opportunity to really see what they do at the farm and get a little more connected. We'll see...

Until later,

Karna and Jola