Flooded

This week I've been flooded in more ways than one. First by torrential rain and then with ideas on how to increase market sales. Here's what went on....

The July 9th flood has kept me busy, not only at our place but also by taking pictures and writing a story about it for the Galion Inquirer. The timing of such things is never good, but it made this week especially challenging for me because our Lodi and Yellow Transparent apples are ready to harvest. I set up at two farmers markets; NorthSide Farmers Market in Galion and Lil' Farmers Market in Bucyrus.

Above is one of 13 pictures that I tool for the paper. It was taken this morning, 3 days after the flood. You can see that the waters cut a river through a field that ran from one road, on the north, clear to the next road south. During the highest water level, the water crossed the road and continued on through the next field.

For tomorrow's market in Bucyrus, I baked 8 pot-pie sized apple crisps. This is a test to see if people will buy them, and how many I should plan on making if they do. I have mixed feelings about it; on the one hand, it would be great to have people love my food enough to buy it and will increase my market sales (of which I am planning ways to double the amount that we sold last year..no small feat for sure!); on the other hand, peeling that many apples is very time consuming and tiresome. If the idea works out, I will definitely have to adjust my time management in order to get everything done that needs taken care of before a market. But, as they say..."nothing ventured, nothing gained". I won't know if I'll be bringing crisps home with me or if the crowd will gobble them up. Either way, tomorrow is going to be an interesting day. And at least we can now safely drive around in our county again.

Marcheta *flood gates open and going with the flow