July 10th week 3

We all spent last Friday up at our cooperative sweet Potatoe and squash field in the Albany New Hampshire Town Forest. It’s always a tossup bringing the kids, but it was a beautiful day, breezy, clear, cool. We spent about 5 hours up there which I consider to be wildly successful. Joni has been more energized about “helping to farm” this summer now that she is off from school and she had a very concentrated stretch of weeding with my farmer friend Jennie while Kyle and I did some good weeding and Ryah wandered about and moved clods of dirt. At some point the kid’s concentration faded, and I removed them to the nearby river where we threw rocks, had snacks, and the dog frolicked in the water. The town forest field usually has a fair amount of pedestrian traffic as there are public walking trails around the fields to the river and into the woods. Friday was July 4th, and the fields were as empty as Ive ever seen them, we had the whole place to ourselves which lent a magical quality along with the near perfect and constant breeze. We headed home around 2pm, heading south away from the incoming Conway weekend traffic and both kids passed out immediately for the length of the drive home.

Please take 8 items:

• Sugar Snap Peas

• Bok Choi

• Beets

• Red Scallions

• Parsley

• Kale

• Rainbow Chard

• Butter Lettuce

• Broccoli

• Kohlrabi

• Fennel

• Basil