Thursday, August 20, 2009

The Harvest is Many but the Laborors are Few
















Wow! I can't believe summer is almost coming to an end already. It seems that when you get so busy seasons just fly! Maybe that is just getting old too!!! We've been keeping very busy picking , picking and more picking. The Harvest is in great abundance and even though we are a family of 12, we can hardly keep up sometimes. Our fall crops are coming on very nicely. Pumpkins, mums, squash and lettuces are growing by the day. Around here in Trenton, we're getting enough rain that we should be able to grow the biggest pumpkin around! Next year we need to arrange better management of our zucchini picking. It seems the standard size this year has been "Baseball Bat" size, the amount of rain we've been getting doesn't help any either. I think they grow inches by the hour!
The children have been enjoying the summer months swimming and playing. It won't be long and they will be jumping in the piles of leaves. One day at a time Lisa!
I'm going to enter some pictures of the girls out in the fields. On my next entry I'll show you how the mums and stuff are doing.
We sure enjoy talking to all our customers who chat with us at the stand. We love hearing all the interesting ways the food we grow are being prepared. I've learned alot of neat recipes from lots of you and can't wait to try all of them.
Take care for now and stop by and say "Hi" to us at one of our markets!