Dang! I’m getting this list to you late for the second week in a row. I wish I had another good excuse like “It was my birthday!”, but really I’m just having trouble keeping my head in the game. Between the devastating rains and the cold weather, there’s not too much excitement coming out of the fields. I’ve also been committing more time to my off-farm work with PASA–a PA-based sustainable agriculture non-profit. I was hired in the middle of the summer to recruit sponsors, advertisers, and exhibitors for their February conference, and the work is in full swing now.
But it’s far too early to hang up our boots for the season. We still have to prepare for and attend two Frankford markets and five Headhouse markets. We have garlic to plant (see above), a fig tunnel to finish, and tomatoes to uproot, plus all the accounting work, seed orders, and field planning for next season. The 2018 season will go down as one of the most frustrating to date, but we’re not ready to give up on it just yet.