Well, this is "saturday" for my wife (and it really is, she hasn't even been called in yet!)
RIght now, on the current schedule change, she's working sat/sun/mon. This week was "light" and her 12 hour days were only 13, 14, and 13.5 hours long.
Saturday was food co op, irrigation, hoof trimming, and Jess at work day. (I had meant to post about the co op but didn't manage to get onto anyting until now.)
The food co op is a farmer's market sort of thing called Bountiful Baskets. It's a bit weird in that you can ONLY sign up on mondays, the A and B site schedules are every OTHER week, you HAVE to pay by credit card. It's worth it. We get a lot of stuff we wouldn't otherwise purchase, but overall the pricing is very fair. Example:
the basic $15 basket this week was
one 6 ounce pack of blueberries.
ten assorted peaches and plums
about 2 pounds of grapes
one cantaloupe
four red bell peppers
two heads green lettuce
a dozen odd taters
one 6 ounce pack of grape tomatoes
two summer squash
four armenian cucumbers
a couple onions
(comparing at safeway the fruit component alone would be about $15 and the produce not as good)
Now, this isn't the super duper organic basket, and this doesn't count the add ons, and it's a LOT of fruit (they try for about 50%, which is dietarily insane). It's not a local CSA farm share- it's you getting on the other side of the safeway supply chain to the distributor using a co-op with some buying power.
For the family- it's enough fruit that we are freezing some (add ons vary week by week but a month ago it was a pack of 12 "pints" of blueberries for $14, so we froze some) - and canning some. I honestly expect to not have to buy "treats" (fruit) for the children at safeway every again (barring something we really want or jess getting pregnant soon)
The baskets and add ons have us being a bit creative - especially the add ons. - they are also taking out about 75% of the remaining grocery store shopping we do.
go google bountiful baskets and see if you can try it out! - if you live int he northeast or california, a few other place, you'll find you can't. It's an interesting map of regulation-of-farming just to see where you can and can't do it!
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Got 3 knives mailed yesterday, yay.
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The storage barn is almost done, yay.
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the half above ground root cellar is coming along. We're using tires and dirt for the walls, hoping to get 4.5 to 5 feet high. Photos will be coming.
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I finally wired the outside of the shop so the grinder can be used properly. I may even get my clear/tinted/ corrugated roofing for the alcove spot for the forge and kiln.
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