I was telling a friend the other day about how my own energy changes across the course of the season. Last fall I think I had a set of buckets just sit in my yard for a month. I passed them everyday and thought about putting them away. I probably even wrote about putting them away on a to-do list multiple times. Still, the task just never happened. Those buckets suffered through a winter until spring, at which time I emptied their contents and got them put away in about 15 minutes. This is the curse of late season. Even the smallest of tasks becomes just too much after a summer of being on the veggie harvest ‘hamster wheel.’
After showing some people around on Saturday, I realized that I’m continually practicing this late season coping mechanism of simply ignoring things that just need to little attention as we trudged through a yard that needs mowing and passed our tiller abandoned in the middle field for the past month, poised to mow down crops that are long done. When surrounded by acres of crops in need of harvest, I think my mind blocks them out.
Why would I do any of these other things when there are literally tons of tomatoes in need of picking? If I simply put in a half hour, I could have 20 lbs on the farm stand for sale. What about the corn? Onions? Melons? Peppers? Potatoes? You get the idea. It’s kind of like being in one of those machines at a casino where the dollar bills fly around you and you try to grab as many as possible before time runs out. Same here. Run as fast as you can, Ryan, those crops won’t hold in the field forever!
Let me get another cup of coffee and get at it. I think I’ll push of mowing for another day 🙂
In the box:
- Eggplant
- Tomatoes
- Butternut Squash
- Buttercup Squash
- Russet Potatoes
- Carrots
- Colored Pepper mix: Mainly red, purple, yellow.
- Ancho Pepper: Dark green – this one is hot.
- Spinach
- Onion Mix
- Garlic
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