Before we get into today’s themes, let me be among those greeting you with the salutation:
May the Fourth Be with You! Happy Star Wars Day!
Yesterday farmers were working fields that had standing water in the low spots and, sometimes, elsewhere. I suppose there’s only so many days in a growing season no matter how much it rains in springtime and that means fields need to be readied for planting. I wonder if having cover crops has any effect on working fields that otherwise might be too muddy to work.
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| a barn at our CSA farm
Photo by J. Harrington
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Intermittent rain and sun have brought full leaf out to about three quarters of the trees in the area. Wild plum bushes / trees have developed ivory blooms to beautify rural roadsides almost everywhere we drive. Meanwhile, our efforts to germinate wild bergamot seeds has proven to be mostly a failure, compounded by one seeding tray getting blown off the deck railing yesterday. I think we’ll try replanting at least one of the trays. There’s plenty of seeds left in the bag but we’re not sure what went (or we did) wrong, although even in the house the temperature has been at or less than ideal for germination.
This morning we picked up week #2 of our Spring Greens community supported agriculture [CSA] shares. Week two’s box contains:
- GREEN GARLIC
- TANGO LETTUCE
- BABY RED RUSSIAN KALE
- SUNFLOWER MICROGREENS
- LAMB'S QUARTERS, and
- A DOZEN ORGANIC EGGS!
cutting greens
curling them aroundi hold their bodies in obscene embracethinking of everything but kinship.collards and kalestrain against each strange otheraway from my kissmaking hand andthe iron bedpot.the pot is black,the cutting board is black,my hand,and just for a minutethe greens roll black under the knife,and the kitchen twists dark on its spineand I taste in my natural appetitethe bond of live things everywhere.
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