This Week’s Harvest
- Scallions
- Sungold cherry tomatoes (for home delivery only. These will start making their way to all the different pick up locations)
- Zucchini
- Cucumbers
- Salt and Pepper Cucumbers
- Golden beets
- Cabbage
- Basil
- Fennel
- Green bell peppers
- Salad Mix
Farm News
A few weeks ago we hosted a workshop for farmers about how to move and use our bodies correctly to lower pain and increase longevity in this field that can be very unforgiving on our bodies! Cynthia Flores of Labor- Movement has been giving workshop shops across the Northeast for 4 years and now she is moving into the Midwest and upper Midwest giving farmers tricks and tools to completing our tasks as comfortably as possible.
From hoing to planting to lifting heavy harvest bins, we are constantly using our bodies and most likely abusing them! So it was great to learn some techniques as well as basic wellness tips. We learned about diet and fluids and sleep and stress management as the foundation of our ability to function. We discussed how farmers are athletes and just like athletes have high protein diets, we should to. And just like athletes train to perform their best, we should too. We looked at our natural bending habits and what we should do to correct them specifically focused on proper squat and hinge techniques for lifting things. This article explains Cynthia Flores’ Labor Movement.
I was pleased to see advice we’d already implemented on the farm like raising or lowering tables to a height that is more comfortable. We have our seeding table up on cinder blocks and our rinse conveyor and sorting table up on extra tall castors so we aren’t awkwardly reaching or bending over.
The next day we bulk harvested cabbage so it was great to get to practice with proper lifting right away!
Wheat Berry Salad with Beets and Feta • The View from Great Island
Polish Sausage with Cabbage and Peppers (I would sauté the fennel bulb with this as well!)
Coming up next week ( our best guess…) Sweet onions, Jalapeño peppers, Zucchini, Cucumbers, Fennel, Parsley, Green bell peppers, Kohlrabi , Salad mix , Sweet corn