{"id":7240,"date":"2016-08-09T16:16:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T21:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sixburnersue.com\/cooking-fresh-eating-green\/?p=7240"},"modified":"2016-08-09T16:20:08","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T21:20:08","slug":"the-fly-by-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sixburnersue.com\/cooking-fresh-eating-green\/2016\/08\/the-fly-by-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fly-By Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_0140\"<\/a>\"IMG_0101\"<\/a>It\u2019s a strange summer. Slow in getting here, fast in passing. The tomatoes have barely started to ripen and already it is time to pull the onions out of the ground. The weather is confused\u2014dripping hot one day, New England chilly the next night. It\u2019s like summer and fall all at once. But\u00a0I\u2019m okay with that. I like fall, and\u00a0I\u00a0feel a bit disconnected from summer this year.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t complain. Grace and magic and kindness and opportunity have conspired to give me a new farmette business with a little farm stand plunked fortuitously close to the road.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_0127\"<\/a>My fencing and irrigation and weed controls\u00a0are working as planned, so everything (well, most everything) is thriving, and the whole darn thing is actually manageable.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_0133\"<\/a>The soil still needs a lot of improvement, so my yields are not what they could be. But the real conundrum is space. The 4000 square feet I carved out this year isn\u2019t enough for\u00a0the little business to really thrive. 10,000 square feet is a quarter acre, and that would be great, but I can\u2019t necessarily get to that here. I might be able to carve out 2000 more feet, but first I’m going to figure out a way to get a small hoop house built (and hopefully a chicken coop and pen, too). Then perhaps I will lease\u00a0an extra little bit of land somewhere else next year, and grow more flowers on it. All things to consider this fall!<\/p>\n

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I did finally break down and buy a new camera, as my old one died and I\u2019ve been borrowing from friends. I went with the cheapest DSLR I could buy and still get good quality\u2014an older Canon Rebel T5\u2014and I just took it out of the box yesterday.<\/p>\n

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\"IMG_0145\"<\/a>So\u00a0of course the first pictures I took were of tomatoes and flowers–probably my two favorite things about the late summer garden. Fortunately, with our warm fall out here, I’ll have tomatoes and flowers until late October of even early November.<\/p>\n

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\"IMG_0130\"<\/a>But I hope I can find some good tomatoes and flowers\u00a0to enter in the Fair, which is–yikes!–next week! I did say summer was flying by.<\/p>\n

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And the last bittersweet sign of changing seasons: The President and First Family arrived for their vacation last weekend. It still thrills me to see the motorcade whiz by, and I will always be grateful that they’ve chosen to come here\u00a0for their vacations. Now if they’d just stop at the farmstand…<\/p>\n

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