Fresh Food: A New Farmer’s Reward
June 22, 2009
Sara Lipka is an intern for The Farm At Sunnyside and has been contributing to The Atlantic Food Channel on a regular basis about her experience. Previously, Sara was a reporter for The Chronicle of Higher Education, in Washington, D.C.
So you do, in fact, reap what you sow. Eventually. The elaborate labors in between make that harvest possible. In my second week on the farm, I learned, for example, to thin beets. Tiny beet seeds tend to cluster, so plants spring up in mini jungles that won’t give anyone room to grow. Thinning means crouching–or, when your back aches, crawling–through baby beet beds to pluck out all but the healthiest plants, four fingers’ width apart…
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Could you post pictures of the greens and cabbages with the names so we can figure out what we got after we get home? I can’t keep track of them.
Thanks.