TURNER — Nezinscot Farm owner Gloria Varney sat in her store kitchen packing green beans in glass canning jars one late August day. “These are for dilly beans,” she said.

It is some of the only downtime she gets during the day in her seven-day-a-week job farming.

“We’ll never be short on food,” she said. “You know, that is a given. But I think all farms will always be — unless you have a perfect year — it will always be on the edge most of the time.”

This time of year her schedule looks like this: baking in the morning, milking goats and sheep in the afternoon, and processing produce for canning while it is still fresh in between everything else, she said. Help can be hard to come by, but there are usually about eight people working at one time during the day, most of them full time.

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