Who needs iPhones and expensive shoes and international travel, when right in my own backyard, our padrón pepper plants are putting forth these jewels?
We only have two plants, but I anticipate an entire row of them next year. This was our first real picking: I'd impatiently picked six small ones earlier in the week, just so we could get the taste back in our mouths again. And we introduced them to a certain little boy who live here, and he pronounced them "Yumma, Nana!" Bob said, "I don't know if I really want to share them among three people. Two is bad enough."
Roasting them was fun: I used the blowtorch.
This is just a short post to invite farm lovers to something (short notice!) at Everett Family Farm tomorrow (it's on Old San Jose Road in Soquel, about two miles from the intersection of Soquel Drive and Porter Street/Old San Jose Road). Mike and Teresa are hosting a work party and a potluck BBQ. Details follow.
Hello friends and fellow farm lovers,
Mike and I would like to invite you all to a work party this Sunday (22nd) afternoon from 4-8 to be followed by a potluck bbq dinner. Bring grillables or whatever you'd like to share. We'll provide snacks, organic veggies for grilling, and plenty of work for as many hands as you can muster.
Sorry for the short notice. We just realized that we've got heaps more work to do than we can possibly do alone. We'd really like to attend the UCSC Farm and Garden 40th anniversary festivities the 27th-29th, but the work can't just be put off till later. So...we're asking all of you if you might be able to help us out.
Could you let us know if you can come so we can plan out our work day and snacks?
Mike and Teresa
464-3740
My friend, Guillermo Payet, is planning to be there...
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This is our humble little garden, which is only about 15'x25' or so, but it's kicking butt this year, thanks to Linda Butler's recommendations about soil amendments. We've got twenty-something kinds of heirloom tomatoes, but only the Chuck's Yellow has produced any ripe fruit yet. We're growing two kinds of corn, six kinds of squash/zucchini, eggplants, grapes, Roc d'Or (yellow wax beans), some kind of pole beans, and three kinds of peppers, including the padróns and one called "Lipstick," which I am waiting to turn red.
Logan is working here every day: he knows how to water, and he knows which things he can pick. He especially loves to eat things that he's helped to grow.
That's all for today: short and sweet. Unlike NANCY PELOSI, who is merely short.
Read this about the farm bill she brokered. Bah. (I understand, it's important to be politic right now, with seats up for grabs in the Midwest, so hopefully we'll get a Democrat in the White House and the next farm bill will be, as Michael Pollan calls it, a FOOD bill.)
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks
forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite
future.” — Leonard Bernstein
Thanks for visiting. Get yourselves to Everett Family Farm tomorrow...it's a beautiful place.
P.S. Congratulations to Kari and Josh Thomas, of Thomas Family Farm, who brought a son, Montgomery, into the world on Wednesday morning. What a lucky little farm boy to be surrounded by that family. His big sister, Lucy, will turn four in just about a week. Sweetness!
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