I am starting with share distribution this week:
2 fennel
2 summer squash (including "patty pan")
2 cucumbers
2 leeks
2 lbs. of carrots or beets
3 heads of lettuce (red leaf)
4 peppers
tomatoes
Choice of 2: small container of artichokes, plum tomatoes, beans : or eggplant or "monster" squash or 1 lb. of carrots
Upick fields: tomatillos, herbs, cilantro, summer savory, sage, basil, thyme and flowers
The details of distribution share is for one share, so if we do some math, we can see just how much produce is involved: 75 shares = total 150 fennel, 150 squash, 150 cucumbers, 150 leeks, 150 lbs+ carrots, 300 peppers, 225 heads of lettuce.
So how are these vegetables stored and how do they stay fresh? Well there is the cooler measuring about 8 ft by 8 ft by 10 ft high with an air conditioning unit, but the vegetables are harvested in plastic bins. And with double the amount of members this year, twice the number of bins were needed. Bins are brought by carts to the fields, used in the rows and then brought back in, quickly washed and then re-used. Sometimes there is a plastic bin shortage, and we need to find wood crates or plastic bakery bread flats to hold the harvest, anything to get the vegetables stored by bulk into the cooler. Today we recived an estimate of 96 bins. I "quickly" rinsed them, dryed them and stocked them . We should not be running out of plastic bins anytime soon.
I also harvested green pappers, and weeded the corn fields. I also hacked a plastic water drip hose that was underground by the corn. My bad. I think I wrote about this watering system last year. When rains are not abundant, drip hoses are run along side of the 2 or 3 rows of crops hooked up to a mainline plastic pipe running alongside the edge of the fields. These are not sprinklers but simply drip-hoses that are made of cheap plastic (and break easily under the hacking motion of a sharp farming tool in the hands of an over-excited and un-observant farmhand)
