I'm a week into my new job. It's more like working in a warehouse than working on a farm, but I suppose that's industrialized ag for you. The foremans a real prick about everything, his version of training is to stand there watching me fail for three minutes at something I've never done and then to call me an idiot and do it himself instead of just explaining how things are done prior to sending me onto a new task. That's having a job, nothing new to report.

Harvested and tied off the garlic today! It was my first sprout of the season, and now as they come up, my yard is lush with cucurbits and solanos.

Walked down to the ARC (a nonprofit thriftstore in my area) and looked for library books to write down. Did some direct action.

My other recent project was tying up my beans! Now they can grow up the string trellis I've made and be happy. I'm growing red kidney beans primarily for chili, but if I find out you can eat them green then I may well do that because I love a good green bean.

I'm regularly harvesting zucchini, on the order of 4 or 5 a week. I've got a grapefruit sized watermelon coming along and a slightly smaller cantaloupe. Cucumbers are just starting to be visible. Kabocha is still growing wild, I have no idea how many I will be able to harvest. The tomatoes are just beginning to ripen, slowly.

I wish I had been right, several months back, about the coronavirus being history before I even get to start harvesting. My county has seen a 50% increase in cases over the past few days, likely due to nobody following the guidelines and the fourth of july just passing.

I'm going to try and keep my head up through this job. 13 an hour isn't worth being degraded for 8 hours a day and being physically and emotionally exhausted during every spare moment with my SO, but I don't really have a choice. The owner is actually cool and he said that I can take home anything we grow, so I'm going to abuse it as much as I can in hopes that I can spend less on groceries, making up the gap between where my pay is and where it should be. The only trick will be getting a spare second to myself to pack away the vegetables I'm washing without the foreman taking them for the farm store, as he did today.