Mondays and Wednesdays are long days for our team of workers. Today we had the help of a cool breeze, three worker shareholders* and our regular staff of six. Harvesting happens from 7 am to 6 pm. On Monday and Wednesday night Todd packs up the truck and I finish up the weekly note before trying my best to get to sleep early. Tuesdays are tough because I get up at 4:00 am to assure my parking spot at market in Lincoln Square. If you see that I am occasionally wearing my shirt backwards on market day, that is why.
*Curious about what a worker shareholder is? A worker shareholder is a part of the farm team and is expected to come to work on certain days and put in a total of 50 hours of work across the whole season in exchange for an Individual Share. On Mondays and Wednesdays, those hours are likely spent harvesting or washing and bunching vegetables. On Saturdays, our other worker share day, people weed, transplant, seed flats or mulch. Right now, weeding is a big one. A couple worker shareholders help me at market in the city or at pick-up locations. Click on this to go to the worker share page on our website.
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| Baby beet greens for salad this week! |
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| Carrots right before the fork and the pull. |
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Free at last!
Carrots behave like other roots;
sometimes they send out "feelers" or legs for water. |
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| Looking down a bed of carrots just harvested. |
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They are bunched in the field, soaked in cold
water and then sprayed clean. |
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| Did you know we have bees, too? We have bees. |
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| Harvest day is a ten-hour day. This is lunchtime with Jake. |
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