Tour de Farm

Sept 27

Today was an interesting Saturday.  There is this event that Genesis Farm is a part of called Tour de Farm.  Basically it is a cycling event with three different categories – the Family Friendly Ride is a 5 mile ride that stops at petting farms but as one woman put it ‘who ever decided all those hills were family friendly.’  This part of NJ is very hilly.  The next category is The Weekend Warrior – a 27 mile ride that stops at farms along the route for a food tasting.  The last category is called The Extreme which consists of 78 miles.  

Genesis Farm fell within the second ride.  So around 9:00 this morning about 150-200 cyclists converged on the farm.  We fed them farm food – biscotti made with bread made from wheat from the farm and a tomato relish made with tomatoes, onion, garlic and herbs from the farm.  There was also 3 verities watermelon and Asian pears.  There were many positive comments about the food.  I was able to work in the kitchen with Charlie, the almost chef.  Interesting guy who I loved being around. (He reminded me of Neal.)  There were also fresh farm veggies for sale.  The people could but the veggies and then have them delivered to another farm where the ride finished.  We sold over $600. worth of food.  More important than that was that the word spread about the good food available from the CSG – Community Supported Garden.

The afternoon ended with another event, a dinner served under a huge tent at yet another farm down the road.  Genesis had been given 2 tickets to attend this $100/plate dinner.  Judy and Smadar tried to talk Jerry and I into going but we really didn’t feel that we should not being members of the farm, etc.  As it turns out Judy and Smadar were able to attend because of their connection to the farm and Jerry and I also ended up going along.  Never been to anything like it before and probable never will again.  They served a 10 course meal prepared by local chefs.  I should have taken a picture of the menu but I didn’t.  It is enough to say that there was soooo much food and wine and chocolates……  No supper for us tonight, maybe no breakfast tomorrow either.  We are grateful to have had such an opportunity.

Our plan is to move on Monday.  The trees are changing and the hills are calling.  We’ll probably head north in to VT and NH.  I’ll keep you posted as things progress.

Thanks for reading.