Our daughter, Kate, joined a CSA (Community Supported
Agriculture Farm) this year where she and her boyfriend work weekly on a farm in
exchange for fresh produce.
We decided to contribute to some of their hours of labor and
share in her experience, so yesterday we did some farm work.
We joined Kate at the farm at 8am with about a dozen other
workers. We felt like farm hands when we rode in the back of the beat up pickup
truck through the bumpy field to the rows of crops. Lucky for us, the ominous
cloud we saw didn’t turn into a storm, because they work rain or shine. Along
with 2 interns, Bill and Barbara harvested a row of a type of early spinach. We
started at one end and the interns worked from the other end. We picked out
weeds and bad leaves while filling crates with good leaves.
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| the interns at the end of the row of spinach |
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| Bill carrying a crate of spinach |
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| the spinach |
In the meantime, Kate had a different harvesting assignment.
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| Kate |
Afterward the three of us joined some other workers and
harvested pea tendrils. We hadn’t heard of them before, but they can be used to
make a pesto. The field was endless, but the work was done when we made enough
bundles for all the CSA members.
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| Bill and Kate |
