{"id":216,"date":"2009-08-05T18:40:17","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T02:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/back-to-the-farm\/"},"modified":"2009-08-05T18:40:17","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T02:40:17","slug":"back-to-the-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/back-to-the-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the farm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quite a miscellany today.<\/p>\n

First, I made it back to Veggielution for maybe an hour this afternoon. Time to do a better job of scheduling. <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Today we had a group of about 30 kids come to the farm, on a field trip for their summer camp. Amie gave them a tour<\/p>\n

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and I got them to try raw purslane picked from the dirt! When I told them it’s verdolagas<\/i> in Spanish, several of them said “Oh, yeah! My [dad\/grandma] loves that.”<\/p>\n

Second, I was thrilled to see that the Campbell Whole Foods is donating the bag credit to Veggielution! A huge thank you to Paul and Sal! BYOB through September to benefit your favorite urban farming project.<\/p>\n

Finally, the links that caught my eye this week. The paper of record has two<\/a> essays<\/a> about cooking in summer rentals. The issues described didn’t really come up in Capitola, because I could go back home mid week and get my own garlic press (OK, and feed the cats) and because I brazenly assumed all cooking and breakfast-buying duties, despite the fact that my best friend, with whose family we shared the house, is herself an excellent cook. (I took on going to Gayle’s every morning because I got up earlier than everyone else.)<\/p>\n

The Chronicle<\/i> has a guide to local off-the-boat seafood buying<\/a>, part of a larger series of where food comes from the in the Bay Yarea.<\/p>\n

My wheat stalks are still soaking in wet towels. I hope I can get to the corn dolly tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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