What's Going on at the Farm Today

 
As usual, our Saturday morning was spent harvesting for Manresa.  Above, Sara assembles some delicate Red Frizzle Mustard into our yellow delivery bags.  Next to her are some Fava Bean tops and Bordeaux Spinach.  Here, Irish lass and fab helpexer, Roisin, cuts some Green Mustard:

She looks positively giddy cutting those leaves!  I would have thought she was a bit maniacal, had I not just told her a silly joke to get her to giggle.  Below, James, our helper from England, gets up close and personal with some beets (that's beetroot to you Brits).
Back in the house, Annette, our volunteer, puts in some desk time helping me out with several blog glitches and yet another Adobe Photoshop tutorial (I'm a slow learner).  She looks like she'd much rather be outside, harvesting veggies, than inside explaining something to me for the umpteenth time.  I'm so grateful she's endlessly patient!

One of the nice things about farm life, though, is that it's constantly changing.  Next time she visits, we'll get her out in the sunshine where she belongs. 

We did a bunch of other things, too.  I spent the afternoon getting my classroom ready for a couple of gardening classes tomorrow.  Manuel fixed the porch light and the back screen door.  Sara, Rois, and James worked on amending and turning several of our garden beds.  The Brits leave next week, so I'm trying like heck to give them a full taste of California gardening

Thanks, troop, for everyone's good hard help today!

Comments

[Annette Truong]

James (my son) laughed when he heard me read "endlessly patient" to him. "You're not patient all the time!" True...true... Very nice post Cynthia! I enjoy seeing the other volunteers who I bump into but don't really get to know that well.