Turns out that when there is snow on the ground, there is still plenty of things needing to be done on a farm. The list posted on the white board in the farm office for this week is as follows:
Things to do:
seed: kohlrabi, peppers, eggplant
pot up tomatoes
fish alliums
dig out implements
move chickens/help with construction
check hoses
wash greenhouse trays
inventory slot trays
write bios
A lot of time is spent in the greenhouse, so if your food comes from a local farm in the northeast, the tomatoes you eat in late July are beginning their lives in a greenhouse somewhere now. Time is also spent cleaning things out in preparation for the season, or cleaning things out in preparation for creating a new indoor chicken coop.
My day seems to be filled with a combination of big, heavy, loud, dirty tasks and delicate, quiet, detailed, dirty tasks.
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A chronicle of an apprenticeship on a small organic farm in Maine.
- katie
- an apprentice on an organic farm for the 2008 growing season. and now, apparently, a blogger.
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- Super Natural Cooking, Heidi Swanson
- Fields of Plenty, Michael Abelman
- Sharing the Harvest, Elizabeth Henderson and Robyn Van En
- Organic Soil Fertility Management, Steve Gilman
- The Soul of the Soil, Grace Gershuny and Joe Smillie
2 comments:
What are alliums and what kind of bait do they like? At least all the tasks are dirty.
if you click on any word that is underlined or darker it will take you to a link explaining said word. so if you click on allium, it will take you to a link about things in the onion family.
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