JBG Day 4!

                On the fourth day of volunteering, our group was back out in the fields. We went back to weeding kale where we had left off yesterday. After about an hour, I had the opportunity to help with transplanting eggplant and pepper plants that were from the greenhouse. This was done by sitting on an attachment to the back of one of their tractors. There were two seats and there was a shelf for you to hold the plants on. This was fun, and while transplanting I got to know another one of the field workers, Christian. He loved working outdoors in the field, and we talked the whole hour and half we were on the tractor. After a lunch break, Tess joined us and Christian took over driving the tractor. Our cohorts went back to weeding garlic beds from the first day. Tess and I continued to transplant for three hours. We got really muddy and sun burned. We were having so much fun that we did not think about our skin frying.  Transplanting was fun because we got to experience how it was done, but also helped to put the work we had done in the greenhouse on Tuesday into the bigger picture.

                During our time with the workers, I started to notice that the workers ate the food that they got from work as part of their lunches. Not only do the workers get a pay check, but they also get a CSA box of vegetables. The farmers that we got to work alongside all believed in the efforts of JBG and enjoyed the benefit of eating vegetables that they were working with on a daily basis. For dinner on Thursday, we had a vegetable heavy meal and we all feel asleep from our physically active week.