A late newsletter this week, too many extra curricular things going on and yesterday it was just too much more to pile onto the mornings agenda. The Farm Dinner at Panzanella was very pleasant and well attended on Monday night and Jim Nixon and his crew turned our produce into some really great dishes. We hope that everyone who came had a good time and it was great to see all of you. Equally I had a good time working with Marilyn Markel at a lunch time cooking class at A Southern Season on Tuesday, good food and great questions from the participants, many now new to the newsletter. I will be doing another class with Ricky Moore from GlassHalfFull in a week, on Thursday evening the 6th of August.
We have almost made it to another summer break. Twenty weeks ago the market season began for us. Twenty straight weeks without a day off and while it has been the most pleasant of springs and summers weather wise there is still a fatigue that settles into the brain whether the body is completely worn out or not. To that end, after market this Saturday the break begins and we will not be at market next week (the 5th and the 8th) while we and the staff do nonfarm related activities. We give the staff a week off with pay so they can feel comfortable in taking sometime off and usually they do some traveling but this year they seem to be just staying close to home. For us we usually just hide out and try to not answer the phone but this year Betsy is headed to Colombia (South America) to visit cut flower farms and a friend of ours who is down there on sabbatical. I will get a day or two of hiking in and then be here keeping things growing. So no newsletter next week as I will rest that part of the brain too.
In the last days running up to “The Break” we have been busy getting started on the falls crops and even some for next year. More lettuce has been planted (under shade cloth to keep it cool) for late August and September harvest. Turnips and Radish were seeded yesterday for early fall too. Celery is in the ground for Thanksgiving and soon will be joined in the shade house by Brussels Sprouts and Collards. Cov and Glenn started the seeds for the first of next years flowers Sweet William, Gloriosa Daisy and the small yellow flowered Triloba that Betsy just started cutting last week from last years seeding at this time!
Picture of the Week
Nothing like the colors of Zinnias
Like this:
Like Loading...
Related
Peregrine Farm 