June 25th Week 1

The days are filled with hours of hoeing, up and down the edges of the garden beds, switching lefty righty lefty righty lefty righty to not tire one side out. It’s strangely meditative, the flow only occasionally broken by bending over to pull a large weed growing up next to the plants out of the holes in the plastic. The resident killdeer family and robins know when we are working and join in behind us, tussling over who will be first in line to get the bugs unearthed by our strange tools. They hop along pecking the freshly scraped dirt doing their own type of work.

Joni helps more in the garden this year than ever before with school being done . We’ve fallen into a routine of spending a few hours in the morning out in the garden, me weeding, her with books and animal figurines set up in a chair. It’s a mix of self propelled play and regularly appearing suddenly next to me to help or announce her extreme boredom with the whole situation, then repeat.

My sandal tan lines feel like one of my biggest accomplishments of the season so far, my feet being a filthy testament to the hours spent this year in the garden. Feet squished through the sucking sloppy mud of the early spring garden and are now happily traveling over drier ground, bending, planting, weeding, hoeing, reaching up on tip toes to tie up the tomatoes. The dirt on my feet and in the small cracks of my fingers and hands has become permanent for the summer season, stuck despite many vigorous washes.

The garden has become alive, the energies of the sun and the soil have been absorbed by the plants, taken up by their roots and absorbed by their leaves and given back in explosive growth. Time to harvest.

Some items are limited this week and will be first come first serve but everything will be in abundance soon…

Please take 7 items

• Bok Choi

• Rainbow Swiss Chard

• Romaine Lettuce

• Garlic Scapes

• Baby Beets

• Kohlrabi

• Curly Kale

• Summer Squash

• Scallions

• Parsley