Today we went to the Sankanac Farm. Meanwhile, back at the farm (at the school), Jim and Tamara moved all the flowers and the herbs from the greenhouse. Jim rolled up the fence around the tomato garden, then we picked up all the apples that had dropped on the ground so Mr Mason could cut the grass. We tasted some of the apples and they tasted good - there were a bunch that were rotten or had holes. We picked raspberries, and removed stems from mint leaves and stevia and crushed them up into a powder. The leaves are for tea. That's when everyone came back from Sankanac...
Miss Kate was at Sankanac. Over there, they weeded a flower bed and did lots of stuff to help prepare for the CSA pickup, like washing and counting yellow squash, processing carrots, carrying crates, and many other tasks. There is always something more to do on a farm.
This afternoon, we made three different kinds of salsa. Tamara liked hers best. It was just a regular salsa that everyone eats in jars. It had tomatoes, cilantro, onions, vinegar, olive oil, sweet pepper, and basil. Jim's salsa had peaches, jalepeno peppers, onions, cucumber, mint, and basil. Jim's favorite was the green one; it had corn, jalepenos, green peppers, lime juice, water, vinegar, tomatillo, coriander, and an herb that tastes like cilantro called papallo. We also made tortilla chips by taking the outside of a taco and putting salt and olive oil on it. We cut the tortilla into chips, then baked them in the oven. They tasted pretty good, like regular tortilla chips. Salsa day was pretty good - we liked it because we got to eat! And we liked cutting the ingredients. Also this afternoon, people tried jalepeno pepper and it burned - it made people cry. Overall, today was pretty fun - and we're getting paid!
Written by Tamara and Jim
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