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Picking Peas

Our farmer mentioned that there were extra English peas to pick if anyone one was interested so I went last night to see how many I could get.

I picked for around an hour and a half and got about a half a grocery bags worth:

And after an hour and a half of shelling by two people (while watching Shrek) we came up with this:

So… around 4.5 man hours of work and we have two quarts of peas to freeze for later. Man, it sucks to be a farmer. I can’t imagine picking enough peas for the other 70 ish people in our CSA or even trying to grow and freeze enough to last through the winter.