Catch…up, a breath
Posted on July 21, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized
It’s full-on summer: Hot, breathless, busy! We’re in the full throes of it. It’s been quite rainy here (almost like a Florida summer) so everything is humid, green and overgrown. We’re quite proud of our gardens this year, overgrown weeds and all. They’re about twice the size of last year’s attempts. And except for some “Attack of the Stinkin’ Stinkbugs vs. Killer Tomatoes” issues, they’re thriving. The only things that didn’t make it: tobacco, garbanzos, edamame. The tobacco I can’t explain since this is supposedly (or at least used to be) “bacc-y country”. I suspect I needed to treat them to germinate properly. I think the beans just couldn’t stand the heat. Fall planting is already underway…at least in my head if not the soil.
We participated in another market last weekend. There wasn’t much turnout as this town seems to clear out during the summer. We spent most of our time chatting with the other vendors, trading notes and goods. I made my first batch of Pecan Pesto. It’s quite delicious, but I don’t know if that’s due much to me or the ingredients. It’s hard to make bad pesto. I sold 10 of 16 jars which isn’t bad considering maybe 25 people came through the market.
I was a bit concerned that many people wouldn’t know what it was considering the typical eating habits of a south Georgian. And I don’t mean that in a bad way. Every region has its food specialties and staples. Pesto is not something you find often on the menu here. And there were a few people who didn’t know or even want to know what it was. And I wasn’t disappointed to find the taste-tester reactions were extreme: loved it or hated it.
We did a bit of bartering after, of course, and I think I ended up agreeing to give a few goats away. Specifically, 3-legged Freddy who manages to get her head stuck at least twice a day in the fence and has to be carefully (sometimes trickily) maneuvered out, and maybe even the 2 new babies. Thinking about it makes me sad. But I’m sure more are in our future.
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