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.

Saturday, May 12, 2012

Click.

Click, click, click.  This is the sound that keeps resonating through my ears.  The sound doesn’t come from the fields but instead it has been coming from inside my head.  Things around the farm have finally started ‘clicking’ for me.  When we started, I’ll be honest, there was much that didn’t make sense and even more that seemed simply strange.  Calling lettuce babies, the immense time and direction utilized in explaining the spacing of plants, and RCM, ‘totes’, ‘b.r.b’s’ and all the other acronyms or shorthanded phrases.   

This week while hoeing through the beds of lettuce, green onions and other vegetables things started to click.  I felt as though I was Adam Sandler in one of his more recent void of laughter, lack luster films with the noise ‘click’ resonating in my head.  Baby lettuce is a baby because we keep them small and in tight rows, the size and distance between rows and plants is crucial because of the type of hoeing we do and the list goes on.  This is the first week I can honestly say I not only feel like a farmer but I believe I am beginning to think like one too.  I site the recent lack of showering as evidence.  The new knowledge has given me rejuvenated excitement for our work, which I need when its 30 degrees and the fields are covered in frost.  I am excited for the coming weeks and months and all the mysteries of Horton Road Organic that will be revealed to me. 

Check. 

Stuart
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2 comments:

  1. Erin MobergMay 22, 2012 at 2:05 PM

    Hahahaha. Glad to know there's still great humor out at the farm. You'll give Rach a run for her money. :)

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  2. MonicaJune 13, 2012 at 7:38 PM

    good to hear there's clicking in your brain. I'm so impressed by what you're learning! Have they figured out that your Amish roots are giving you a strong advantage? Amish roots give advantages in all areas of life. Of course.

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