A taste of farm life

Here is a glimpse of some of the day-to-days that go on at the farm. We've been fortunate to have almost perfect weather since I've been out here so everything has run super-smoothly. 

Besides a 60-member CSA, we harvest and prepare enough produce for a bountiful Friday market in Manzanita. But this means a lot of hard work and TLC to the fields the rest of the week. 

Last weeding wednesday, we tackled the youngest bed of carrots. Conveniently, the most abundant weed was very carrot-topped size so it was a...meditative event that spanned a day and a half's worth of weeding. 

Our most abundant crop. I challenge anyone to harvest peas and not eat one. The crisp is so satisfying yet they fill you up way too fast! 

Weighing out bags of peas for CSA boxes. 

So many peas!

This is our prep room where all of the weighing and making snack boxes and such happens. 

Our prep greenhouse where we meticulously wash and sort and count everything. 

Some of us get to slack off. 

We just got baby chicks last week! Meat chickens, unfortunately. But savor the cuteness!

Slugs don't mess around out West. 

Lunch in the Solar oven. Pop in at 8. Eat by 1. 

Pulling out old salad beds. Very satisfying after parsing through pounds of salad mix for good leaves. 

Exercising mad tetris skills to pack everything in for market.