Wednesday, July 7, 2010

The geography of a harvest; unknown unknowns

Last Friday I was in downtown Hamilton at the "Maker's Market" selling produce which had been harvested over the course of Wednesday-through-Friday. Here are pictures of {most of} what I was selling, minus cherries, from left to right:





-garlic scapes (those curly things, the immature flower-heads of garlic plants)
-green onions
-radishes
-parsley
-asparagus




-garlic
-romaine and iceberg lettuce
-kale (the really frilly greenery)
-beets (which we were selling with the leaves/greens, which can be eaten too)




-leaf lettuce
-rainbow swiss chard





-shell peas, snow peas, snap peas
-red currants and black currants
-{cherries were perched just below and in front of the currants}





-lavender
-terragon
-oregano
-thyme
-cilantro
-dill

...

And where they were all harvested from:




This evening while I was putting this map together, I realized again how no matter how many questions I ask and how much of my leisure time I spend exploring the farm, I miss alot.
Case in point: I had to ask Ann where the radishes and lettuces were harvested from, because they are grown in many patches, and since I did not harvest them that week I simply didn't know where on the farm they were from. Also with the parsley - I've never harvested it myself, so didn't even know where on the farm it was!

I expressed this feeling, "oh man I'm missing out on so much!" to Ann, and our conversation segued into other things I don't know: just today I learnt we have a patch of blueberries, and well as a few goji-berry trees on the farm. Also I knew we had some service/saskatoon-berries somewhere, but didn't know we had some larger shrubs which are quite productive already.

At least I don't have to be scared of running out of things to learn while here.

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