it’s already been a ton of people today.
lovely people bringing things and taking things and people with nothing just starting. no takers on the buddy tape or strawberry pots yet though
@nuttingbumpus do you want some buddy tape? I ordered two rolls and they sent me a dozen.
Very full day today. Will give you a call tomorrow about buddy tape - haven’t tried that yet. Thank you
sure thing, no hurry it’s not going anywhere
potato mountain adventure
I am flighty and exuberant and cannot resist potatoes
therefore I got myself into serious trouble at the hutterite potato mountain party. we got there day one, a friend told me it was up and I dragged my partner into the car, and filled every container, and filled my little hatchback completely with potatoes.
I was so excited that I did not even think for a moment about anything but potatoes. my mind went blank. then I got home.
unloading the potatoes. piling and looking over the potatoes. starting to process them. realizing I have no more freezer space after washing, peeling and boiling 30 pounds of them. canning until I ran out of jars and my hands hurt from soaking and scrubbing and cutting.
I gave many to other people in the local food not bombs group to preserve until we need them, gave a lot to the food bank, and am giving more to a local mutual aid group today.
I have no jars left. my deep freezer is full. my back hurts.
BUT I had a great time at potato mountain. I also found a lady who knows about an onion mountain and another who knows about a corn mountain so I get the feeling I might be in trouble a few more times this year.
romance
I brought home 23 large bags worth and processed and preserved 6. I’m spent.
That is an insane amount of potatoes. You’re probably more ambitious than most in how much you took home, and I bet it would take many hundreds if not thousands of you to make a dent in that pile.
it was wild. families filing the beds of pickup trucks. hippies with big laundry baskets. farm workers with kids filing bags. we didn’t make a dent in the nearly full afternoon, it was as if none had been taken
it was on the news the following day and after that I think it was all gone. enough people showed up! I kept trying to fit more in the car! I kept thinking about the food bank and food not bombs both needing food like this, and getting more crazy about playing Tetris with my hatchback
if I had a truck? it would have been worse, much worse 
