C.S.A. Week 6 July 31st/Aug 1st

We have been at this spot in Cornish building our farm for just about five years now. Its been a slow process of expanding gardens and adding infrastructure we need to make our farming lives easier and more efficient. This list of finished projects is proudly growing longer, and although it has felt like slow growth in the moment, looking back it really feels amazing what we didn’t start with. This summer a relatively minor but important project has been our wash station. Every Wednesday and Friday we harvest a significant amount of food, and having a shady well set up space for cleaning and packing the food is essential. After several years of just using a spot in the yard or an unattractive tarp setup next to the garage we decided to turn an overhang off of the back of animal barn into our new space. This was a sitting porch we found we rarely used. We ripped up the porch floor boards last fall and were able to repurpose them into the wall of our tractor shed, and Kyle spent a couple of long days digging out the dirt and adding buried drainage pipes leading away from the wash station and into a now underground pit lined with landscape fabric and filled with crushed stone. The wash station itself also got dug out, lined and filled back in with stone, so we have a dry area to work on that can handle absorbing a lot of water. Like many big projects much of the work becomes invisible in its finished state, as now all the drainage lines have been covered over with soil and re-seeded to grass. The final touches will be made this fall, adding an adjacent door that will lead to our walk in cooler for easy access, and some permanent hosing coming down off the walls into wash buckets.

In the share:

• Eggplant

• Broccoli

• Cucumbers

• Green Cabbage

• Basil

• Green Beans

• Kale

• Cherry Tomatoes