It was full moon in Taurus last night, and we all know what that means (or you can guess if you don't): cooking, baking, harvesting, and other such autumnal and earthy delights.
Food from the Earth, the student group dedicated to sustainable food, of which I am a part, put on a harvest festival at the Yale Farm today. Last night we got to cook and bake for it, which was very fun and satisfying. We made many pumpkin pies, apple crisp, beet salad, baba ganouj (eggplant dip), butternut squash and apple bisque... This morning we loaded in all up and brought in to the farms. There was bread from a local bakery, and apple cider. TUIB, the student folk ensemble, performed. In the meantime, the regular Friday farm community workday was going on, with people helping harvest tomatoes, carrots, sweet potatoes, and lots of other lovely things for the Farmers Market tomorrow. I helped thin radishes and clear some flower beds that were done for the season, as well as wash dishes from the foodstuffs. In the radish bed, we unearthed (or hardly unearthed---it was mostly above ground) and foot-and-a-half long daikon. By five there was farm pizza to enjoy as well.
Have I talked about farm pizza? I'm sure I have. Suffice it to say that they make the dough, use vegetables and herbs from the Yale farm, and bake in their wood-burning brick oven. It is wonderful.
The harvest festival was a lovely end to what felt like a very long few weeks. It was wonderful cool, cloudy fall weather, perfect with the smell of the woodsmoke in the air. Red and yellow leaves were strewn on the grass and the sidewalk, occasionally fluttering down to land beside you like reticent and curious birds. Now it is raining softly, and dark--a good evening for tea, and a book.
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