It always happens this time of year. Dreaming of family vacation. Maybe it’s being knee-deep in farm work and overwhelmed with all other things in my life or it could be that my mind gets bored with too many hours in the field and I just need another thing to think about…
More than likely it’s a function of being super-rooted in a place. I wake up and tend the same fields for hours a day. I walk down the same little paths that get made over the course of the season, like a deer that treads the same walk day after day. I appreciate the rooted-ness and how the fields change over the course of the summer, yet some new scenery sounds nice.
This year I’m hoping for New Mexico by train, maybe over Christmas? I like the idea of the whole family making the trek and luxuriating in some hot springs in the cool mountains of December, but Sylvie’s off to college and Will is locked into basketball – I hope I can get the stars and schedules to align.
In the box:
- Sweet Corn! Still a bit on the young side, but I think we’re all getting impatient.
- Carrots
- Orange Tomatoes
- Cherry Tomatoes
- Sweet Onion
- Garlic
- Green Pepper
- Purple Pepper
- Curley Kale
- Daikon Radish: This plump radish with its top cut short
- Hakurai Summer Turnip: White ‘radish’ looking thing with green tops. This is great just fresh like a kohlrabi or radish. Peel if you’d like, slice and add to salads or salt and eat fresh.
- Red Potatoes
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