Welcome To Pie Friday!

This year we invite you to participate in the 2012 season by following our new blog! We will keep you posted on what's going on around the farm, featuring stories, pictures, and more brought to you by the Horton crew.

The blog's title,'Pie Friday', is in reference to our Friday tradition of sharing something sweet while we review and reflect on the week's work. Each crew member has the space to 'check-in' about their experience, pose an idea or question, or simply listen and eat pie. As tradition goes, the person speaking finishes their check-in by saying 'check'. It is in this spirit of sharing that we hope you join us this season, over a slice of virtual pie, to be a part of the Horton Road crew.

Check.

Monday, April 16, 2012

They're Here!

On Sunday night we made 9 pizzas.   No joke.  The rest of our crew arrived Sunday afternoon and we started the season off right with lots of cheese and creativity.  

Dawn, with a 'split personality' pizza
I can tell we're going to have a great crew this season.  Hopefully we will hear from Stuart, Hallie and Dawn on this blog soon!

Earlier in the week Lisa, Ashley, and I did the first plantout of the season.  Two and a half beds, in the field we call South Dakota, are holding our first heads of lettuce, broccoli, and baby lettuces.  It was a beautiful, sunny afternoon and I remember thinking that there was nothing else I would have rather been doing.  For the first three hours anyway.  Then my body began to remind me that I wasn’t exactly in the physical shape I had been at the peak of last summer.  (Let’s face facts; I was downright lazy this winter.)  However, at the end of the day I looked out at the field and felt that my work had been not only personally satisfying, but moved to know that my efforts were a part of something larger than me.

Check.

-Rachael



Broccoli!

2 comments:

  1. this is awesome! it's so good to see photos from the farm...give my love to d & b. best of luck this season. :) happy planting.

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