Yesterday was a special “Animal Planet” episode of Veggielution. First we met Chloë, who has a hurt foot, seemingly no fear of people, and a crop now so stuffed full of birdseed that she feels like a Beanie Baby. Monica Lisa really wants to take Chloë home; we’ll see if that happens. Then Belinda saw [...]
I dropped off the pears at Eulipia this afternoon, anxiously leaving them in the cooler for almost two months. I’m really hoping they’ll just hibernate, but the walk in is pretty cold, and I sorted out all of the ones that weren’t hard and green, so I’m trusting in that. I haven’t totally settled on [...]
And, since I said I’d link to it, you can now purchase tickets for our sure-to-be-wonderful fundraising dinner! Click here to purchase tickets! I’ll post more about the menu as it develops, but you know there will be pears and tomatillos!
Todd is my new Veggielution hero. Not only did he bring the compost pile back to steaming life, but he lavishes us with homemade food. Today he brought two kinds of bread (plus cheese and butter to eat them with) a zucchini spoonbread, and the means to make stuffed, fried zucchini blossoms. I had prepared [...]
Or, My “Can-Do” Attitude. Last night’s meeting with Mike and Steve Borkenhagen of Eulipia was very energizing. They’re being so very generous with our fundraising dinner, doing it for us at cost and being very flexible about menu and seating arrangements, depending on how many tickets we sell. As soon as Amie has a page [...]
Yesterday morning’s drive to Año Nuevo was not the normal jaunt up the coast. As soon as I got over the summit on Highway 17, the sky was filled with smoke, and it got darker and browner all the way down the hill, through Santa Cruz and up to Davenport. Well over half the traffic [...]
A busy day. First thing in the morning, I harvested at Veggilelution, to the detriment of my now-scratched-by-zucchini-vines arms. Here are the perps: Amie got some cool old wooden crates from an orchard, and so we picked into those. We also picked lots of pretty tomatoes. All in all, about 90 lbs of veggies that [...]
I went to the farm for a bit this morning to help with the visit from the Green Team of Summer of Service. These kids have spent their summer helping out at Our City Forest, cleaning the Guadalupe River, working in the garden at the Roosevelt Community Center, and, of course, giving their time to [...]
Quite a miscellany today. First, I made it back to Veggielution for maybe an hour this afternoon. Time to do a better job of scheduling. I knew things would be much bigger after two weeks away in high summer, but I was still happy to see the newly-staked tomatoes in the new plot. Today we [...]
Back to my real life, including Village Harvest on Tuesday mornings. Today’s harvest was a jaw-dropping 1,700 lbs of: oranges, lemons, white grapefruit, tangelos(!), mandarins(!!) and pink grapefruit(!!!) There was also a plum tree that was two weeks past its prime; I brought the two or so pounds of very soft fruit home, and will [...]