La Serre pt. 4 -- Work

Wwoofing used to mean "willing workers on organic farms" but they had to take the word "work" out of the acronym so that the tax people couldn't get involved. That doesn't mean that there is no work in wwoofing anymore, though! We work a lot, and we do a lot of brunt work. We weed for hours. We stand up and put microscopic seeds in holes for hours. We harvest, we plant, we clean. We only work an average of 5 hours a day, so it isn't terrible. I just wanted to account for some of the work we've done here.

These are the hundreds of shallots I harvested one morning.

We seeded all of these baby lettuces. These are about 2 weeks old.

For about 3 days, all we did was pull up baby leeks from the outdoor nursery and prep them to be planted.

One of the coolest jobs we've gotten was ketchup making! We learned a lot and had a good time doing this. Dominique stressed us out incessantly, but it was neat to see how to do this.

Tita and Loute on the ketchup making day. We were all inside and depressed because the weather was miserable. I drank 6 cups of tea that day.

Derek set up the camera to catch us making ketchup. That's all!