here’s the photoset for our trip to Eatwell Farm this weekend. Ben and I are members of this CSA, and every few weeks they invite members out for a party centered around whatever is most ripe — in the spring there are strawberry parties, in the late summer it’s tomatoes, and so on. they set up a lovely field kitchen where folks can cook, can, and make dishes to share. later in the evening there’s a campfire, and we set up tents and spend the night under the stars, waking early the next morning to eat local tortilla and eggs from the farm. it’s pretty great.

this year i convinced teresa, chris and geneva to join us so that teresa could teach me how to can. it turns out that there’s a reason why we invented machines that do our sauce-making-and-canning for us. because it took seven hours to yield nine jars of red sauce. and i give it only a slight chance that we’ll give ourselves botulism…still, a lovely time was had by all. and the best part of canning in a field? no clean up.

oh, and did i mention the hundreds of baby chicks? the cuteness!