harvest #1

an early har­vest for alaska, as the days are just start­ing to really warm up. my skin is sun­burned, but i still wear my striped long johns and pio­neer peak is still cov­ered in snow. today’s was deer tongue let­tuce and red russ­ian kale. a small csa deliv­ery but the most deli­cious. spring kale. a treat. we cooked a shop­ping bags worth up in some braggs, tons of gar­lic and olive oil, a feast. im think­ing about kale cake now and all the uses for rhubarb! there is rhubarb grow­ing up though all the cracks, its christmas-y strands soon cov­ered in a cus­tard, and rest­ing in a pie dish. its rhubarb curry now, rhubarb crisp, rhubarb sauce on every­thing. with 20 hours of sun­light a day, every­thing bolts so quickly, seeds pre­dict­ing future sea­sons of chewy stalks. almost every­thing has been planted out, the 50mph winds make it hard for the del­i­cate squash stems. the sec­ond type of mos­qui­tos of the spring are much smaller and harder to catch than the first. buzzing now, lady bugs too.