My last day at the Patch....put up the deer fence around the berries.
I guess I have worked at the Berry Patch a total of 6 days spread out in October and maybe made $350.
Karen and Judy in their 50's and 60's respectively are developing an acre or two for the Haspkap berry, I think we have planted about 350 two foot tall berry plants. The Berry's origin is from Japan. The ladies had a couple of gallons worth that were made into jam and sold all at the local Sandpoint farmers market this summer. Haspkap production is rare in the U.S. so the ladies are trying to get in at the the start. They have done their homework and studied many aspects into growing and marketing .
I have contracted my labor and deep skill-set with them for 10/hr..cash,distbursed at the end of every day.
In the beginning I tore out an old barbed wire fence and posts that ran inside their southern property line....which encouraged encroachment from their neighbor.
Put up a new fence line via pounding metal posts and stringing straight wire.
Then with Wendy and Joshia(local young folk) we layed out black plastic the length of the plant columns and cut holes for inserting the individual plants which was done on another day.
Raked out tire tracks between columns and also raked dirt onto the sides of the plastic to hold it down from flapping in the wind.
As a side note: This fall in Sandpoint has been stunning in its fall beauty, never have seen anything like it.
Also this fall we had a back up plan to move into Peter Kemery's house in Sandpoint.
Its an old house built in the 1920'2, smells like what my Grandparent's house did.
Have earned a few dollars working at raking up leaves and trimming bushes and other odds and ends at the old place on Antone street. At this time it looks like January that we will be moving in.
However our occupancy depends on Boise, ID and Coffeyville, KS jobs...so we will see ....
Preparation: Today October 22,2010
Journeyed across the long bridge and meandered through the traffic clogged city labyrinths only to be refused service at Les Schaub. They wouldn't put my pre-bought-elsewhere leaf-spring-helpers on my Dodge. They wanted me to purchase their equipment before they did the installation.
Well ...here I am rolling around like a Walrus with a spring beneath the Dodge. I experienced the usual dirt in the eyes and locating the proper tools to get the job done.
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