Okay, so here’s what’s been going on. I ditched a day of work this week to help Big Table Farm with harvest season for wine grapes.
Wine is something I know very little about, but as far as my taste buds
can tell, theirs is amazing. In fact, everything they do is amazing and these two work their butts off.
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Clare is a total babe |
Clare is a total bad-ass and any invitation to
follow her around and be helpful is one I will take. Her husband, Brian, is the wine-maker and
she raises livestock (as well as being an artist and graphic designer). She has pigs (Rose and Petunia), cows,
chickens, two very adorable dogs (Levi and Clementine), one lonely goat and a
pair of glorious draft horses (Houston and Hummer). During harvest season the main task for the
volunteers like myself is to help sort the grapes, which get
lowered onto a conveyer belt and any debris is carefully removed, as are over/under-ripe grapes.
Apparently due to the draught we're experiencing, this year’s harvest was absolutely gorgeous. They sure did taste grape…I mean great.
Back on the farm we finished harvesting all of our potatoes today. Sheesh, have we got potatoes! Our biggest winner this year was a potato Adam found mixed in with the Yukon Golds a while back. It had the size and shape of a Yukon but with a pink skin. So he named it Sunset. We pulled some enormous Sunsets out of the ground today.
Pictured here is Jeremy "Q-Ball" our newest farmer, who has been such a pleasure to hang out with (not to mention a fabulous gym-buddy). He is holding some lovely Sunset taters.
My favorite thing to do when harvesting potatoes is to be the "Potato Munchkin", who follows after the pitchforks and digs through the soil making chimpanzee noises and snatching up all that starchy goodness from the earth.
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