I was not prepared. Although we did get a few days warning about the frost coming so we got to harvest pretty much all of the sensitive crops before it hit.
And I have to say, it was nice not doing it in 30* freezing drizzle like usual. Plus Phia came out to help, which was AWESOME. I don't know if y'all know this; but, help is helpful sometimes.
Now we just have all the stuff that we put in weeks or months ago to dig up, like potatoes and carrots, and the other stuff, like leeks, (we have a ton!) onions, shallots, Brussles sprouts, cabbage and winter squash. Plus some misc. stuff like greens and herbs.
I just read Dreams of Joy by Lisa See. It's all about an idealistic young Chinese woman going back to China during the communist era. Super interesting, especially since I'd never read anything about what happened there during that time. Even though it was a novel it was well researched and that almost makes it better than reading real accounts, at least I can say these were fiction, not real people that were suffering. Even though real people did (and are) suffer(ing).
What I thought was interesting, and what got me on to this in the first place, is how fragile our food resources are. Even with CRAZY weather this year, (that made us buy tomatoes from other farms to can because we didn't have enough of our own) we STILL had a ton of food come out of the ground.
But, that's only because we were allowed to grow a wide variety of crops. And use our own judgement in what to plant, where to plant it, and how to cultivate it. I can see if someone else with less or no experience on our particular piece of property was to come in and try to survive...well, good luck!
Anyway if you do want to read Dreams of Joy you should know it's a sequel to Shanghai Girls.
How did this turn into a book review?
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