A New Routine

So, starting yesterday we've settled on our final daily and weekly schedules. Here's what a day looks like for me:

• 4:30 - Wake up. Read or sit or stretch for ten or fifteen minutes.
  
• 4:45 - Eat breakfast.
• 5:00 - Ride to Jeff and Leslie's house.
• 5:20 - Drive with Jeff and Leslie to Ali's house, and then drive to the farm.
• 5:50 - Arrive at the farm. Spend 10 minutes weeding in the greenhouse while the farmers meet quickly to plan the day.
• 6:00 - 9:00 - harvest if it's Tuesday, Thursday, or Friday, otherwise do other tasks.
• 9:00 - Break and eat a snack (usually 70% almond butter).
• 9:15 - Finish harvesting and processing, or carry on with other farm work.
• 12:00 - Lunch
• 1:00 - Work. Typically at this point in the day it's hot enough that we're only doing field work or other farm work (i.e. not harvesting).
• 6:00 - Leave with Leslie and Ali for Guelph.
• 6:30 - Ride home from Jeff and Leslie's.
• 6:50 - Arrive home. Shower, eat, look at the turkeys or the garden or talk with people, read or write blog posts.
• 9:00 - Go to sleep.

I'm still getting into this routine. I've got plenty of energy during the day, but I find I'm tired by 8:00pm. As I mention above, harvest days are Tuesday and Thursday, because we have the store, Oakville, and Guelph CSA drop offs then, and Friday, because we have the Georgetown market on Saturday. Monday, Wednesday and Saturday are regular work days where we do whatever else needs to get done, like weeding, planting, building, seeding, etc.. Currently our harvests are pretty small so we can get them done in about the first half of the morning.

Anyhow, here's what we were up to today:

• Harvested 200 Pac Choi for the Buy Local! Buy Fresh! Map (sorry, couldn't find a real link) project which is delivering boxes of local veggies to people. Ali drove them to the drop off point in Guelph.
  
• Jarrod and I built a large box that can sit outside to house all of our garbage between trips to the dump.
  
• Jeff and Amanda weeded the tomatoes in the greenhouse.
  
• Weeded all the Allium (you remember what they are, right?), and the celery and celeriac.
• Ali and Leslie did the monthly accounting and called all the Guelph CSA members to remind them of the pickup tomorrow evening.
  

Yesterday we:

• Harvested for the farm and Oakville CSA drop offs. We harvested Pac Choi, garlic scapes, radishes, lettuce mix, spinach, and kohlrabi.
  
• In the afternoon we strung all the greenhouse tomatoes up, and weeded some of the seedlings in the greenhouse. Actually I spent most of the afternoon doing this with Jarrod and then on my own, as everyone else was involved in running the CSA drop offs.

I have to say I really love working alone. Maybe it's particularly nice because it's so much of a change from the typical days where we all work together. It's nice to have some time away from the busyness of other people, and of my own voice.