It’s Like a Garden of Gourds Out There
September has been a wild ride, keeping up Local Food Forum while juggling some big contract obligations. It came to a head yesterday when I published Local Food Forum, published a Naturally Chicago newsletter, ran the Zoom and helped moderate a ReGenerate Illinois webinar, attended three meetings, and then spent last night writing an opera review for the Third Coast Review site (yeah, I do that too).
I’m not embellishing. In fact, I’m not going into detail about some time-wasting technological hiccups that made the day even more interesting.
It’s all valuable and rewarding work, though I think my hamster wheel is going to be slowing down a bit and I’m grateful. With October — the last full month of our outdoor farmers market season — starting Friday, I’m going to be freewheeling around to make sure I don’t miss a thing. You know, YOLO, and I have a serious case of FOMO.
This morning I scratched that itch by dropping by Green City Market, where it’s beginning to look a lot like Halloween with big, medium-sized and tiny pumpkins, decorative gourds, an increasing variety of winter squash, and more and more types of apples (including Empire, a personal favorite whose name derives from the nickname of my birth state, New York).
There are still a few summer crops hanging in, so get to the market soon or wait til next year.