First Day

Saturday morning I woke up at 6:30 to rain drizzling on my tarp and tent. Good Morning Martha's vineyard! From my tent I headed off to the farm house ready for my first day. I started my farm work in field S5 by picking red scallions and kale. To pick the red onions, I had to stick my hand into the dirt as to pull it out without breaking the plant. After picking about 10 or so onions I would bunch them with a rubber-band and place them in a box. The kale was much easier to pick. Once the boxes were full of red scallions and kale our work was done in S5. Next I headed back to the farm house,washed the following, and placed them in a refrigerated room where they are labeled by the day they were picked. Then I headed off, first by foot, then by farm van, to the strawberry field. In the strawberry field I kneeled in the wet dirt and picked strawberries, most of which were engorged with water because of the rains. As I kneeled on the ground I moved the leaves of the strawberry bushes around until I found a good hard berry and placed it in a pint box to my left. Perfect berries go to the farm stand, and slightly damaged berries go to the bakery. After filling up approximately 20 pint size boxes, my legs, hands and lower back were killing me. Perfect timing for lunch...3 hours of strawberry picking done. Lunch consisted of little mini fresh baked pizza and yummy salad! After lunch I went to weed some arugula plans and a small herb garden next to the farm house. 3 more hours passed and before I knew it my knees could barely bend and the clock had struck 5 p.m! Off work! As I was walking to my tent, some girls from the farm invited me to the beach. So at around 5:45 off we went to South beach. I immediately jumped in the water, and took a short swim. After a good hour at the beach hanging out with fellow farm-people we headed back to the farm and I made myself some gnocchi fresh squash and zucchini. Not a bad first day!!!