A small group of us went to the green house to seed trays of lettuce and pak choi this morning. You have already seen trays of soil with people bent over them. How about some action? Here is a short clip of me using a little seed tool with tiny lettuce seed.
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| Emily Stephen Tyson and Caitlin |
We went out into the Flat Field at Sentinel Elm to see the growth of the newly seeded pea plants. This field had been plowed by horses so the rows were 30 inches on center--that means from the center of one row to the center of the next is 30 inches. The little plants were coming up and the ones under the remay (white cloth) were even bigger.
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| Stephen Tyson and Caitlin |
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| Here come the Peas! |
Our next task was to pull up some spent spinach plants. The chickens enjoyed picking through the old greens.
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| Stephen and Emily folding up the irrigation tubes |
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| Forking in the hoop house |
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| Chickens enjoying spinach |
At lunch, Theo demonstrated the "hand salad" There is no quicker way to get one's daily greens than this!
In the afternoon, our half of the group were in charge of cleaning up the last dirty corner of the barn, stacking the sacks of seed potatoes and sorting and counting the various produce boxes. Satisfying work, for sure. We're ready for the harvest now. If we could only get our seedlings in the ground!
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