We have become friends with a woman who came from away specifically to farm on the south shore this season. She leased some land, and has been selling her produce at a couple markets a week. She just left town to go home this past weekend, and needed help pulling all her plants before she left, to leave the garden area in good shape for the owners. On Friday, a week and a half ago, we went over and spent an afternoon helping her out, in exchange for any plants that we wanted to take home and transplant, as well as any veggies that she hadn't sold. It was a fun afternoon with her that didn't feel like work at all, until I got into the car to head home and realized how tired I was. We took home a bounty of plants and produce, of which I am so thankful to her for. We brought home about 100 different types of kale and chard that we transplanted into the greenhouse area that we've been preparing, about 12 basil plants (not transplanted, just pulled), several hot pepper plants (matchbox, cayenne, jalapeno and habanero), lots of tomatillos, and an incredible amount of tomatoes. I couldn't even estimate just how many pounds of tomatoes we brought home, I can only tell you what we've done with it so far – filled a 9-tray dehydrator 4 times, made 4 batches of pasta sauce, and made 12 pints of salsa. And that's only about half of them, the rest are ripening as I write this!
When we decided to move to Nova Scotia in early spring, one of the hardest parts of the decision was recognizing that we were not going to be able to have a garden. All the food that we brought home that day more than made up for that loss.
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