On Thursday, July 14, I had my turn to take our CSA boxes to the Athena Health drop-off and our beautiful vegetables to the Farmer's Market in Belmont, MA.
It was a beautiful day and our veggies (and raspberries!) sold well.
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| Me, hawking the kale. |
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| Tyson, spritzing the chard. |
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| Arched Sheep shelter |
Here is the sheep shelter I designed with happy sheep under it. Unfortunately, they like to rub their itchy backs against the sides and it isn't standing up.
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| Mesclun |
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| Mob grazing |
Here I am emptying a mesh bag of salad mix (arugula, baby bok choy, mustard leaf and red russian kale, at least) into a bin. These little leaves are hand-cut in the field, rushed back to our wash-up station in the lower barn, mixed and washed. Then into the mesh bag for a spin in the washing machine. We bag them up for our CSA members. Very delicious greens!
When you give a set number of cows a small pasture, they have the tendency to mob-graze. They line up and eat all the grass very efficiently. If you give them a lot of pasture, they roam around, stomping down the less tasty stuff to find their favorites. Managed grazing is an art worth mastering.
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