Friday, June 5, 2009


Time just speeds along this time of year. You turn around and plants have grown a couple of inches in the blink of an eye. Soon we will see our kitchen tables fill up with tomatoes. Already it is time to say "so long" to intern Harmony Hudson as she will be returning to Conway Arkansas to work the summer and start her senior year at Hendrix College. Great things will be in store for her enthusiastic and pioneering spirit, no doubt. We have been getting to know the newest intern Caitlin from Montreal and talking about summer plans. Still waiting on a couple from Chicago coming this Sunday. We shall see. But what is most striking is how much willing help and curiosity this whole farming adventure has brought our way. The Downing Hollow Urbagrarians, who my sister Sue thinks should be renamed the Sharecropper Sisterhood, have been building a wonderful garden at our house in Memphis. That garden has a 100 tomato plants, 30 plus peppers and just as many eggplant. There are rows of French heirloom bush beans and pole beans, as well as lots of cucumbers and squash. Not to forget the fingerling potatoes and a nice row of melons we are training up a trellis to conserve space. Just got to get some okra in somewhere!

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