Aug 20 2012
Farm Cred
This weekend we celebrated Jen’s birthday in high agrarian style. Here’s Jen showing the tomato plants what’s what.
Like most farmers, Jen and Sarah started the day with a hearty breakfast.
Sarah received calls on this recently harvested cucumber.
We dropped off our entries for the Dutchess County Fair, which starts on Tuesday. Jen entered her blackberry jam; Sarah, coming off a blue ribbon campaign at last year’s fair, tried to enter two pictures but was thwarted by the deadline due to a combination of bad luck and — O.K., due to bad parenting; and I entered our hay. In doing so I learned of an excellent arbitrage opportunity: it costs $1 to enter a field crop, but that entitles the entrant to a free exhibitor’s admission ticket (retail value $15). Sarah took this picture, in part to document my arbitrage skills and in part to document my lingering Icelandic beard.
We rounded out Jen’s birthday with a lovely sunset and dinner for two at Mercato, the Italian restaurant in Red Hook. Sarah had a sleep-over at her friend Michaela’s house.
On Sunday we all got back to work, gathering grapes for Jen’s wild grape jelly.
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