It was Henry, keeping a barrier against infection between himself and the world.
We picked about 750 lbs of good apples today, with probably another 250 lbs of culls. Not a good year for apples, it seems, which is strange since it was such a banner year for pears.
I finished Farm City today, it being Novella […]
We picked some apples at Filoli this morning, in the beautiful old orchard that is being lovingly restored by Alex Fernandez, their head horticulturalist. They pick themselves for fruit tastings for the members of Filoli, and not everything was ripe yet, but we picked about 10 large trees’ worth of fruit.
Filoli is in the same […]
I had a lot of fun in Baltimore, visiting a friend from college. We spent Saturday in DC, where I found the signs to be a bit testy.
I had two very memorable meals. The first was in Baltimore, at Woodberry Kitchen, where the knowledgeable server and my friend struggled to make me understand that local […]
We picked some figs today at Village Harvest, along with an astonishing amount of grapefruit. My fig tree is a sad tree, certainly due to my decision 12 years ago to build a treehouse around it. Not in it; the treehouse platform is supported by sturdy wooden posts on concrete footings. But the luxuriant fig […]
That’s one of my favorite B. Kliban comics (that and “Bugs kept away”) and I always think about it when we’re picking pears. We returned to yet another regular Santa Cruz mountain orchard and picked almost a ton of pears, in addition to the other ton that another team had picked here on Saturday.
(Can I […]
We went back to the pears of Summit Woods this morning, picking more at last week’s orchard, plus another house. Village Harvest is all about the team, for me, and we have a great time picking together. Here’s John bull riding:
And here are La Jefe fabulosa and Henry in the orchard.
For snack, we had a […]
No photos today. I picked a lovely kumquat tree, about six weeks too late, but the kumquats were enormous and seedless, so it is certainly a tree we should return to in force next year. I’ll bring the fruit with me tomorrow, and we can distribute it. I’ve about got to the point where I […]
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 went […]
This morning, we had a very special episode of Village Harvest, gleaning almost a ton of Italian prune plums from the Guadalupe Historic Orchard. This is one of my favorite places we go every year (they come thick and fast at the end of the summer) and we also enjoyed the best volunteer group evar, […]
There are places we all look forward to returning to every year. Village Harvest is no different, and today we harvested the first of several small orchards in the Santa Cruz mountains. Even though it’s still August, and plenty hot, it feels like the turning of the season.
These are Bartlett pears, and, like all […]