Farm Update

What's Going On This Week It's really interesting how different we all are. Not just our personalities, but also our physical make up. We have such a great group of Rousekateers that work on the farm with us, we consider ourselves very fortunate. There's the A girls, Amber, Abigail, Ashleigh and Annabel. Tina, of course, she's been here for a number of years. Tiffany, the early morning phantom worker. Ginny, who has been here almost a year now. Harvey, who can fix and do about anything, Jeffrey and the two Matts, Matt one and Matt two. There's some farm talk that Matt 2 may not be a humanoid. Robot? Maybe. Alien? Highly likely. Why do we wonder about Matt 2? The man never sweats! He absolutely could care less if it's a thousand degrees or 50 degrees. Today we were all out in the fields, it was hot! Everyone was moving a little slower than normal, except Matt 2. Everyone's clothing was soaking wet, except Matt 2's. I saw sweat dripping off the noses of everyone, except Matt 2. As I was walking out to the field with him after a drink break, I said to him,"Good God Matt 2 it's almost unbearable out here today!" Matt 2's reply,"It's not that bad, what is it like 82?" I said,"Dude it's 93 degrees out here in the sun and humidity. The heat index is probably above 100 degrees!" He said,"Yea, I can see you're really sweating and you might want to consider a shower soon." I've also noticed his skin never changes color, even though he's in the sun everyday. I've decided, tomorrow I'm going to push him in the farm pond. If he sparks a little and goes up in a puff of smoke, we know my hunch was right. Keep you posted. This week at the market: Sweet Corn Carrots Red Potatoes Egg Plant Sugar Snap Peas Green Beans Cabbage Zucchini Summer Squash Lacinto Kale Spinach Cucumbers Swiss Chard Herbs Honey Eggs As you know, all of our produce is grown organically. The sweet corn is from another farm and grown conventionally. We hope to have some organic corn later in the season.

Locally Yours, Vicky and Steve