Gettin' Fresh

Tonight we had a potluck! Once a month all of the coastal organic farmers in the area come together and have a pot luck full of luscious food harvested from their own fields. Fresh food tastes better! My tastes buds were dancing tonight as they were tickled with the likes of figs, cucumbers, rabbit, beef, eggs, leeks and watermelon. Every dish was even better than the previous and I just fancied this function for the fact that all of the dishes were extremely creative and inventive. Having people share a passion for good food with real ingredients, as I do, was breath taking. I was really able to network with many farmers here and have set dates to visit all of the farms to experience what it is like to work and be there. To my surprise there was a small handful of people my age there since the average age of the farmers were all in the sixties. I really enjoyed showing and touring our farm and letting people see the hard work that I have put in. I was able to meet with the owner of walker farm where I heeded much advice as how to turn my sand ground into something productive for my vegetables. An update on my hightunnel growing, I have picked out all of my varieties of veg and am ordering tomorrow! Jerry came back and taught another mini course on pruning, which took place during a lightening storm. I seemed to be the only person to be nervous about getting struck since we were standing with iron poles and metal beams. I quickly wimped out and sought shelter in the main house. Here’s Jerry, in his element,  pruning a peach tree and a blackberry bush.

In all, this was a wonderful event that fed me a bunch of energy for this upcoming week! Here’s a picture of Larry and Cindy the farmers at my farm and Tyler and I, the apprentices.