8:00 AM First stop a dump date to pick up mulch. The first 100 pounds per car are free; then it costs one and 1/2 cents a pound. This was great mulch..see all the worms in the shovel. Already the day is off to a good start.
9:00 AM Go to Hallockville and see the sheep get sheared for wool and coo over the babies nursing.
10:00 ish Bring mulch home and do rounds on the garden. Oh no..trouble in the nursery. Eggplants, zucchini, peppers and cucumbers not looking healthy. The broccoli is iffy..some of it looks great;some have yellow droopy leaves. So it is off to Sang Lee and Trimbles for replacement plants. I will also plant some Asian vegetables from seeds from Eddie Lin (Mike's Chinese cooking teacher and friend).
Noonish I pick some berries..we only had about a dozen and supplement them with some from Sang Lee. They will be for lunch, while Mike shucks the oysters from our own babies that grew at Cornell. They are huge and fabulous with just some lemon added.
Lunch is fabulous on a glorious day. Being a farmer can be tough, but one can get used to it very quickly. A quick update on the bees I was hoping to get. I met with Laura, the bee lady, and she said we do not qualify because we are so close to the water. The saltier air is not good for the bees, and our location is very windy. Both these conditions will cause the bees to fortify their hives with some kind of sticky substance, making the hives harder to access, and decreasing honey production. I have a question to ponder...what is the difference between a farmer and a really expansive gardener?
yummm, looks superb! Are those your berries?
ReplyDeleteI'll make it official: You are a farmer!
ReplyDeleteThat's some serious amount of mulch. Let the mulch to food conversion begin.
ReplyDelete"I have a question to ponder...what is the difference between a farmer and a really expansive"
My $0.02 is on animals/non plant life forms which are present on a farm that are required to complete the cycle of adding some nutrients (N,P, etc) to keep the land and everyone on it, including you healthy.
Where's the picture of the Prius loaded up with 100 lbs of mulch? I guess I will have to wait to see if it made it onto the cover of Green Living magazine.
ReplyDeleteWe missed out on the oysters? Aw shucks! That pun was for Grampa Mikey. The berries looks awesome, bummer about the bees, that would've been fun. Just saw Food Inc. last night, scary, but makes me proud of my farmer family. :-)
ReplyDeleteToo bad the fresh bluefish for tonight didn't get top billing yesterday, but then again, it was caught later in the day. Ah well.
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