June 25, 2004
Frozen Troll
Happening at the farm: seeding in greenhouse, watering greenhouse for growing plugs, transplanting plugs, weeding, harvesting, feeding and watering animals, cultivating, soccer watching... There hasn't been a lot of farm voyeurism happening on my part though, I've been too busy to follow Lorenz around like a baby duck of late. Nevertheless, on Wednesday night, Germany had been eliminated so the soccer was done for HP and Lorenz knocked off early to hang out and barbecue (perhaps he was celebrating the anticipated troll-free situation?). Before that, though, I did one more nosy-parkering trip into the greenhouse and up to the field.
It's enough to make you realize just how ecstatic you would be at this time of year if you were restricting yourself to local produce. You would be feasting on radishes, kale, broccoli, spinach, lettuce mix, leaf lettuce, asparagus (still!), chard and both snap and snow peas right about now. Tara has been making rather ecstatic noises about the broccoli, I could provide a stereo effect when I steal peas out of Justin's bucket as he's coming down the hill...
And that, folks, is all the news you're going to get out of the red barn troll this month. I am looking out the window at snow-capped mountains with the sun on them still. No cute foals or yams that sprouted in my kitchen, were displayed by me as an illustration of my slovenly housekeeping and were subsequently put in a pot in the greenhouse by Lorenz. There are no yams in pots up here! Though there are some chickens in Iqaluit - I saw organic chicken feed come off the luggage conveyor belt at the airport! I've yet to see chickens scratching away on the tundra - and I'm pretty sure I won't see any north of the Arctic Circle, which is where I'm headed tomorrow!
(If you're really dying for farm news, bug Lorenz. I'll be back at the end of July with less lame entries than this one. In the meantime, you can always read the other site, if things work out, internet access wise, that's where I'm putting the Arctic pictures. Much more interesting than pictures of weeds, I promise!)