Farm photography: Mid-summer Harvest at Whistling Wolf

Here are some outtakes from our ongoing photodocumentary project about Whistling Wolf Farm, a 2-year-old organic vegetable farm.

On a blisteringly hot day in July, we photographed farmer Helen Chandler harvesting vegetables for market — all by herself. First she was harvesting the little white turnips that she enthusiastically recommends at the farmers market as “sweet as candy when you put them raw in your salad!” She pulls them by hand in the field, ties them with a band, then brings them to her cooling station where she plunks them in buckets of water to wash and cool them.

Later that day she ruefully showed us her bok choy, which had been infested with caterpillars. “Not much left here,” she lamented, salvaging quite a few big juicy heads.

We ended amongst the bean poles, where she plucked some snappeas for our daughter to taste. We were all happy with her response: “Yum!”