An opportunity arrived to go volunteer at an urban farm. And I thought it sounded kind of fun. Well it was fun and some work also. I was part of a group of about ten plus the farm manager and the owner. We pulled a lot of bolted lettuce and weeds. We harvested beans and the cherry tomatoes. I have never seen black cherry tomatoes before. You knew they were ripe when the bottom was red and they were tasty. We fed the lettuce to the cows and the pigs. I never made it over by the pigs but I took two loads over to the Scottish highland cows on the farm. The farm manager was so happy when the calf started eating the lettuce as thus far she did not eat the produce. The hardest job was rolling the cart over the field to get to where the cows were.
The owner also owns Crave Catering. He explained that prior to this year, the farm supplied the catering business and that was pretty much it. They had 28 employees last year between the two businesses. This year being 2020 he has four employees. He said there have only been five events catered since mid March. So they have a farm stand and doing some farmer's market. Farming goes on and so the produce needed to be harvested.
It was a good experience and the ten of us all got bags of produce to take home, plus we got to supplement it with what we harvested today. The best tomatoes are the ones picked yourself.
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