Boy, you’d think we were in the middle of July, not the last day of August! Even though we started harvesting as soon as it was light this morning, we didn’t manage to finish until noon, and by then we were cooking. Nearing the end we almost gave up on harvesting the summer squash, but decided it was worth sweating a little more to get one last (?) bit into the bins!

Today was our first basket day without help from our two interns — Scott and Danny finished their two-month stay at the farm last week. So it took a long time to get through washing the vegetables and packing the bins, but we managed. Robert and Erin, friends of Joël’s, and Jean-Pierre had helped out with what could be done on Monday afternoon, and June and Lloyd lent a hand packaging the sunflower spouts.

It’s a good thing we had that help too, because I think that today’s baskets were the biggest ever: it took some strategic placing to get everything in!