Jay Hill Farm Blog!: Happy Birthday to Us!

Happy Birthday to Us!

Friday, April 25, 2008

No, not the farm! It's my birthday as well as my sister Elsbeth's. We're not twins, we were born on the same day seven years apart! I want to say happy birthday to my not-twin and also say that today has been awesome.

Mom and I spent the day picking for Farmer's Market, which was fun as usual. We're finally getting more salad mix, so with any luck we'll make it past 10 o'clock before we sell out of it. We also picked our first batch of asparagus! Soooo cool. I happen to love asparagus, so I'm really excited to be able to offer this to y'all again. We'll start listing it on the web site in a few days (so it can recover from today's picking) so watch for it! In other great news, the rhubarb has continued apace, we'll start listing that on the web site on Monday. Both of these items will be sold by the pound, it's the only way we can really sell it efficiently.

Lastly in the good news zone is that we've got fresh horseradish root now as well. Please know that this is the actual root, it hasn't been processed in any way. I can tell you though, horseradish infused vodka is awesome (thanks to our chef friends!).

The last thing I want to say for the day is that I will be taking a vacation at the beginning of next month (May 8-12) to visit my friend who is working on her post-doc in environmental anthropology out in Seattle. She's working with the Discovery Channel to define the impact of changes in Alaskan crab fishing laws on the guys from the show "The Most Dangerous Catch". I'm so excited to see what she's working on! I'll also be out at the Emerald City Comic Con, which is a fabulous two day comic book convention. I'm really looking forward to this year, as it's been three since I was last out there and I've heard it's grown quite a bit. For those of you who are worried, Mom will be doing the picking, so you're still going to be able to get your veg-fix. :)

Okay, well, I'm off. Farmer's Market in the morning, hope to see you all there!

Cheers!

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