Farm Visit

Lou: Dan has a student that works for a seed company, so, he thought it would be right up my line of work if I tagged along for a day while she visited some customers. She got to practice her English in exchange. Veronica sells vegetable seeds to many of the farmers around the area.


We spent a lot of time on the road and left at 8 am getting back at 5 something. It was like a real work day, though I didn’t really do anything. And well, we took an almost 3 hour lunch break because “we can’t really do anything until later because everyone is taking the siesta now (ie a long lunch and/or nap). It was fun to hang out with her. We made stops at a few places that were high into the garlic harvest. There was a strong smell of garlic coming from the fields! There is a picture of me holding garlic bunched & tied. Then, they are loaded onto trucks like the one pictured (how many slow garlic trucks did we get stuck behind!) and taken to a warehouse to be dried, stalks removed, and boxed.


There was a lot of shop talk with the farmers as she handed out new squash varieties that she wanted each to try as a trial. We also stopped by a farm where they had a carrot trial planted, and she needed to check how it was doing.


We went to Tunuyan in the Uco Valley. So, I think we were essentially in the foot hills and the view of the mountains with all of the greenery & trees was spectacular!


Food: Here are some great, tiny peaches & part of a giant squash. It’s hard to see scale, but that’s a regular salad plate, and that is a slice of half of the squash. It is probably 8” in radius here. The whole thing seems to look like a long African style drum of 2’ or more. I thought it would be stringy for being so large, but it was really sweet and soft!