If you don't read anything else, please note these 2 things: 1. we are not having any more pot-luck dinners this season (sorry for all confusion). 2. Our sweet potato party was quite nice (thanks everyone!)

Hello all!

This is Nate here sitting in for Alice, who's living largely under the email radar these days. So she says please CALL her if you need to be in touch. Like if you'd like to connect with some excellent fresh farm food, cause there's tons left out there. Give her a call @ 515 460 1467 to set something up.

This message also is relay news about important upcoming events you don't want to miss.

here's a tiny watermelon that tasted just like the real thing

Hello Eaters!

(this picture is from earlier this summer, but gives us a chance to see Nicholas, and a few others mentioned later)
From: nicholas leete
Subject: drought
Date: Monday, August 24, 2009, 10:32 PM

Hopefully some of my wonderful family will add something to this blog - but I will quickly post a few pictures that I have. Thanks everyone for being such a team with all the challenges of group camping.
i was so busy that I only got my camera out right before everyone left, so there are many missing from these photos.

Colette and Darrin are getting married this weekend, so we will have some extra guests on the farm, and a slightly different schedule. There won’t be a community dinner this Friday, the 17th, but we will resume the next week. Everyone is invited to our Friday dinners, for a meal at 6 and prayer and/or discussion at 7pm. Please feel very welcome to come to both or only one part, and come even if you don’t have food to bring (did I mention we have a lot of vegetables?)

Last week we harvested our garlic. Since they are planted in the fall, for a July harvest, this was our first garlic crop. It was a pleasant surprise, because some of the plants looked a little puny, but the bulbs look awesome - fat and heavy! Here's a picture of them hanging up to dry.

Here's the one onion flower that our farm produced, I've been told by Alice that she cut it down when she harvested the first round of onions.
I've uploaded this and pictures of the last few months onto facebook, you can see them here.