Day 4: Lettuce & Farmers Market
- Marley Rosen
- May 31, 2024
- 1 min read
5/23/24
By E.T 👽
Thursday farmers market #heckyeah. My personal favorite morning spent harvesting lettuce heads and an assortment of other lettuce for salad bags. My not-so-favorite part? Discovering that spittlebugs are a thing. They lay eggs on the lettuce, but these eggs look like small bubbles and feel like saliva. Today we spent more time weeding and some time petting Curly the cat in the garden. Curly’s so baby. We had to turn around when we were almost at the market because Seth needed acrylic levelers that he left at his house. When we finally made it to the market, I bought 2 delicious cookies (ube coconut and salted chocolate chip). I also got dumplings and dried tajin pineapple. We spoke to a Latina vendor in Spanish before lying in the grass near the amphitheater. After taking some photos of the farm stand, we went home to make pasta for dinner and rest up for the day to come.
Fun fact of the day: Grasses are either clump-forming or rhizome forming (these are often called 'runner grasses.') Clumping grasses are rather trivial to pull in comparison to rhizome grasses which run deep and long, choking out other plant life.
Marley's silly solo task of the day: tromping around Seth's 62 acres of farmland and ultimately lying in a beautiful green bog for a brief stint. This doubled as a great opportunity to take photos of the farm.
A morning lettuce review
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