by Janet Kern
Carla and her team!
It was a beautiful fall morning on the Saturday of Columbus Day weekend. By 9:00, the only clue that it was no longer summer was the lack of summer harvest vegetables for the food pantry. No more beans, or eggplant… and only a few tomatoes. And the late lettuce had been eaten by the bunnies. But there were sugar pumpkins and kale, and we harvested the last of the chard. Basil and parsley were abundant too! After sending off the food to the food pantry, we drained and rolled up the hose from inside the garden, and then spread manure on the asparagus and rhubarb. Remaining work days in the garden will include taking down the wood fence around the big garden, with a plan for a bunny-proof fence next year…