{"id":203,"date":"2009-07-18T18:51:18","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T02:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/farm-tour\/"},"modified":"2009-07-18T18:51:18","modified_gmt":"2009-07-19T02:51:18","slug":"farm-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/farm-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Farm Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another photo-heavy post. <\/p>\n

Veggielution took our act on the road this morning, visiting Fat Cabbage Farm, Coastways Ranch and Pie Ranch. It was a great day, and we found real kindred spirits Coastside. <\/p>\n

We all made it over the hill to Fat Cabbage, located just outside of Butano State Park. Brian met us there<\/p>\n

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and showed us their 2 acres of land.<\/p>\n

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Brian, Miranda and Paul do all of the work themselves. All of it. We feel incredibly blessed with Veggielution’s huge base of volunteer support. The farm is in such a beautiful setting, but there is something to be said for being in the middle of a city of a million people. Brian is really a kindred spirit, and we all want to stay in touch. He gave us many useful tips for our planting, and for packing vegetables, weeding, you name it.<\/p>\n

Then we went to Coastways, where we were disappointed that ollalieberry season had ended last weekend. But several people picked beautiful strawberries. Swanton has taken over the running of the u-pick operations there, and there are fields and fields of strawberries.<\/p>\n

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The beds are built up very high here, making strawberry picking slightly less back-breaking that usual.<\/p>\n

Then we went to Pie Ranch, where Jared was leading their own volunteers in hand-harvesting wheat!<\/p>\n

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Amber waves of grain! We want to grow wheat at Veggielution, harder red wheat suitable for making bread. Pie Ranch grows Sonora wheat, which is a historic variety here in California, and a softer, low-protein wheat, suitable for pie crusts and other pastries.<\/p>\n

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We cut the straw with hand sickles, tied it into sheaves with twine, then stacked them into shocks.<\/p>\n

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The farm is now home to Adelaide, a sweet Jersey cow.<\/p>\n

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We talked to Jared about their youth program, which is very similar to what we want to do. Pie Ranch has a farm stand, but the majority of the food they grow is intended for their educational component, which always includes meals gathered and cooked at the farm. I would love an outdoor kitchen like theirs. I left with a pie and 10 lbs of flour; next time I get flour, maybe it will be from wheat that I harvested. <\/p>\n

It was a great day (although tiring) and we made some great connections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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