COVID
These weeks were a blur. I tested positive for COVID on July 5th, after a weekend visiting my partner in Seattle. I visited the farm on July 4th to observe the newly germinated plants, and by the next morning I was sick and testing positive. This was my second time having the virus, and I was put out of commission and into quarantine for over two weeks.
Andrew was traveling abroad in Europe during almost the exact period of my quarantine, so much of the watering of our greenhouse seedlings was owed to farm manager Beth Leimbach. Dr. Sarah Williams was kind enough to take several sets of pictures, with which I was able to complete germination evaluations for the buckwheat varieties and email those evaluations to Annie Salaski at WSU.
I spent my quarantine time deciding on the details of my planting plan. I researched different types of mulch, amendments, and irrigation, as well as developing rubrics for evaluating radicchio and cabbage.
Image by Sarah Dyer.
Image by Sarah Dyer.