soy joy pt 6 – the greener side {finale}

Here is Allen (don’t you love how I have dropped the P? Yeah, we are so bff’s.) and Jim Carroll talking about growing edamame in container gardens, kitchen gardens and for families. Listening to these two discuss farming and history was pure delight. They were both so at ease and seemed to really enjoy making something as pedestrian as soy, personal for each of us.

After we chit-chatted about soy we toured Allen’s 1 acre veggie garden, where we all got down and dirty and filled in a row of tilled soil with soy beans.  If you want to see proof, head on over to Ashley’s blog– she somehow managed to get a picture while I was too worried about dropping all my seeds!

Next we all munched on the rows of blackberries there were ripening. So fresh and yummy. My favorites were the ones that were so warm I truly felt like I was eating a little piece of sunshine. I generally not a berry picker for fun, but I think I could get used to eating hot blackberries off the vine.

During the entire day Allen’s camera crew followed us around asking us questions about the day and things like “what is your favorite soy product?”  After the initial fit of giggles we all put our game faces on and acted like having a film crew follow us around was standard stuff.
Everyone on the crew and the P. Allen Smith staff were so nice, helpful and easy to work with. You could tell that they were all pro’s with a job to do, but that they were excited to see us excited about the day.

But they are a little magical.