On Friday, I took part in the Indian Brook harvest. Twice a week, our campers pick whatever our garden has to offer. This week our group picked beans, summer squash, sunflowers, cucumbers, beets and cabbage. As the group I was working with was harvesting the summer squash, we found male and female flowers and talked about how the bees we were watching helped produce the fruit we were harvesting. Meanwhile, another group of harvesters were pulling beets while playing an elaborate guessing game. After all our food had been loaded into our truck, we brought the produce to Tamarack Farm where we washed, weighed and logged it.
The Farm & Wilderness camps take turns receiving the weeks’ produce. This week happened to be our turn. On Friday night, our cooks prepared a beautiful meal with farm-fresh veggies. As I was enjoying my dinner of curried vegetables over rice, with yogurt cucumber salad and cabbage salad, I remembered one of the campers in the garden that morning saying, “I love harvest day!”.
“Me too!!” I said to myself with a (huge) smile.