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  • From: "Hook Family" <guldann AT ix.netcom.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: harvest in rain
  • Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 06:36:35 -0400


Leigh wrote:

I don't do markets, I do subscriptions but I have 60 shares that need
picking and delivering today. (I picked 50 yesterday in the rain by
myself because my help thought rain meant no work and didn't show up
- he doesn't have a job today). Early this morning another local CSA
farmer called to ask if I was thinking about cancelling delivery for
the day because of the saturated fields (he got an inch more than I
did).

Hi Leigh It raining up here in the North as well, Massachusetts. I have a
CSA and never cancell due to rain. Don't forbide the harvest of anything
either like beans which shouldn't be picked in the rain. There might be
some damage but I think in the long run its better than having folks miss a
week.

I have 3 pickup days and I could not bear to have to continually reschedule.
I rescheduled for the first time in 5 years this past Aug so we could go to
the NOFA conference. And todays pickup is to be untended because I have to
take youngest to college (empty nest not as happy as I'd thought). This may
be only my sec. untended in 5 years.

I got dripping wet harvesting last night. I set the veggies up in the barn
instead of outside when it rains. I have some hard core folks that even
pick the upicks in the rain. Although its not raining at the moment only
cloudy so maybe the folks won't get wet.

If you have a CSA you can not cancell, you could re-schedule it you can't
deal with the weather, but the agreement is once a week veggies.

Best, Beth





  • harvest in rain, Hook Family, 08/30/2002

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