Thursday, May 7, 2009

Potomac Vegetable Farm




Above is a picture of the main greenhouse and the cabin we stayed in.



Josh's wife, Kristel works at Potomac Vegetable Farm in Purcelville, VA. PVF is a non-certified, CSA farm about 45 minutes from Washington D.C.

(Unfortunately, after visiting Pittsburgh Erin and I had little interest in going back into a city. We missed D.C.)

Kristel invited us to come down to the farm, exchanging a little work for an interview with a farmer and a place to sleep. There were multiple cabins across the roughly 180-acre plot, most of which without electricity. However, the one Kristel was given to stay in was much larger and had both electricity and hot water. More people were suppose to stay in the cabin, but Josh decided to apply for a job, "taking the extra spot" to stay with Kristel.

I really liked the worker cabins. I think it was an strategic plan to give workers a place to live and money in exchange for physical labor. We had practically missed spring. The temperture jumped from rainy and miserable, to 90 degrees and sunny. The buds were blossoming. There were flowers and bugs. There was green everywhere.