“Oh isn’t this nice!” That’s my Mom’s usual refrain now when ever we get together as a family. What was supposed to be clean up duty turned out to be a small family gathering in the sunshine at the farm, and she was simply delighted with the results. It’s her usual refrain “Now isn’t this nice, and she means she is absolutely adoring the fact that all of her chicks are together.” With my Husband pulling up all the veggies for the compost pile, and rolling up the water hoses, we started to put the community farm garden to bed.
Mom puttered among the flowers, Dad was in the workshop building a cabinet for my Niece, my Nephew and Sister hung out with us, and the farm dogs, we all enjoyed the sunshine, and doughnuts.
It’s a real farm fresh feeling, watching them pull up that garlic, although it looks like it could have had a touch more water. Gathering the last of the tomatoes off of the vines, plucking kale leaves for dinner. And finding yet another hidden patch of potatoes, and onions, growing from those left behind the year before.
We found pumpkins, squash, gourds, and watermelons, all growing in between the corn stalks. Some hybridized beyond recognition, all bumpy, and warty, parts dark green, and others brilliant oranges. I can’t wait to have a warty pumpkin at my front door.
Although the farm garden was a lot of work, and near the end of the summer I couldn’t go anywhere close to it because of allergies, it was worth the experience. Harvesting…