Charlie and I've been working on a vegetable farm in Belgium for three days. It's been pretty nice so far: hard work 7 am - 1pm, then munching hard, then nap, then dinner, then chill with the other workers, then sleep. The farm is organic, and most of our work has been weeding in various variations: with this rolling wheel thing, with a hoe, with a different hoe, by hand. Yesterday we also harvested some gherkins (yes they're not just tiny cucumbers). The farm is run as a CSA -- community supported agriculture. The members of the CSA receive a box with some delicious assorted vegetables each week.
A few observations:
After having my hands in the dirt all day, I now truly understand the meaning of "scrub up." Someone once told me, "you're a white collar worker if you wash your hands after the restroom. You're a blue collar worker if you wash your hands before going to the restroom.
Organic farming is hard work.
Raw zucchini is better than cucumber (what now cucumber lovers)
hey teddy. i just skimmed your blog and i saw you have no comments on any of your posts. i don't want you to be all bummed out about that, so here is my comment: i am disappointed by the scarcity of catch phrases. please follow up with a post about cool spanish and belgium catchphrases.
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haha thanks for the comment Amanda. unfortunately we've been going through a bit of a dark ages of sort of catchphrases. Charlie says this means we'll have a renaissance soon, but who knows...
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