Hurricane Irene

Lots of people have been asking me how we are preparing One Love Farm for Hurricane Irene. With apologies for sounding facetious, the answer is everything and nothing. We are picking everything we can as quickly as possible. We're blanching tomatoes and freezing them, drying peppers and crushing them, roasting eggplant and making eggplant balls. That's the everything part.

The nothing part concerns the plants. As much as I would like to protect the plants outside, there's not a lot to do. Cover them? Surely the winds would blow off the tarp. We just have to get as much harvested as possible and hope for the best. Hopefully everyone in the path of Irene stays safe and dry.