November 2

It is closing day this Saturday at the farm, and though there will be a trickle of last minute customers for the next week or so, the activity will notably slow. With the late front in October, it’s been a long growing season, yet it is remarkable how quickly it seems to have gone by.

Last week saw the men in the front field nearly all day long, picking leeks by pulling them each out of the black plastic and cleaning the outer layer of skin from the bottom. These were made into groups of three, and such bundles were sold to the foreigners, mostly.

Now the root crops have largely gone, save for several bushels of potatoes, carrots, turnips and such. I suspect it will all go within the next week or so.

After this, we rely on whatever stores we’ve made (and of course the grocery) to get us through till next spring. We are already starting to miss the benefit of fresh vegetables.

Opening day was around June 20^th, though the work of seeding, plowing, preparing the beds, and transplanting had begun in early May. This makes six months of demanding work, and I imagine that the fallow time is sorely needed.