We’re pulling the tomatoes today. What’s left of them, I should say. A full three weeks earlier than planned, the stalks are coming up, already leafless and succumbed to powdery mildew, and it feels like a failure. All season I’ve been avoiding Instagram photos of gorgeous tomatoes, unable to look at them without a pang …
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I have a bone (er, seed) to pick with zucchini bread recipes. They don’t use enough zucchini! In the middle of summer, when the zucchini starts overwhelming our CSA members, and we’re left with crates of it even after we urge them to take as much as they want, I turn to the kitchen. …
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I noticed it the night we drove home from Maine. 8:30 pm, rain pouring down, headlights pushing through intermittent mist and fog as we navigated the backroads of Marshfield and Calais. And then again this morning, my alarm clock rising me at 5:15 to a dark room, despite the curtainless windows. I pushed snooze …
We arrived to loon calls and eagle flights, to a family of crows cawing each morning in the pines along the shore; to red squirrels venturing out to acorns at the end of oaks, branches flexing down, down, as paws reach for nut. Mornings in Maine, like at home, start with tea and coffee, …
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August brings bounty, when seemingly every crop is ripe and every harvest basket heavy. Zucchini, cucumbers, tomatoes, carrots, beets, lettuces, onions, garlic, beans, new potatoes, and more. And I can’t forget about the basil, parsley, thyme, and sage, plus the cut flowers, brightening the fields and kitchen table. It’s a month when the end …
In the middle of summer there’s so much to do, so much to share. The fields are bursting now, the harvests literally getting heavier with the addition of zucchini, carrots, beets, onions, and cucumbers, with tomatoes and new potatoes soon to come. “Bring a wheelbarrow,” Edge joked with CSA members, preparing them for the …
