She's signed up with Farm Fresh Express, a new farm-to-home delivery service run, coincidentally, by two women, who gather produce from 24 area farms and deliver to several hundred homes.

She's having entirely too much fun at the moment, but she realizes it's only temporary. Kamm knows the sweat and tears are ahead. She'll rise at daybreak and spend long hours bending and hauling, in fair weather and foul.

Why is she doing this? What is the real appeal?

"Farming is just a weird thing," Kamm says, "People feel drawn to it, and they don't know why. I know I love it, and I could give you a list of reasons, but the real reason is just a gut thing I can't explain.

According to the cash-free terms of her lease with homeowners Jack Nachamkin and Margaret Goodman, Kamm will supply the couple with a basket of produce a week and fill their root cellar with potatoes, onions, squash and cabbage.

"As a starting farmer, there's no way I could afford to buy property or equipment," Kamm says. "The lease is very generous."

Nachamkin, a retired physicist, bought the property with his wife in 2000. They still live in a house there, but when illness crept in, they posted the farming opportunity with the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture and found Kamm.

"I wanted to encourage someone to do well here," says Nachamkin. He brought in an old camping trailer as living quarters for his tenant. There's no heat or running water yet, but it does have a composting toilet. Kamm's comfortable all the same.

"I'm doing the things that need to be done and doing them with delight," she says.

Nachamkin smiles over at her with fatherly affection and collegial respect. This landlord and tenant represent perhaps the perfect combination of aging and new-age hipsters.

Kamm's parents, who are divorced and live nearby, were initially shocked but are now supportive of their daughter's decision to farm. Dad put up a couple thousand for a used 12-foot refrigerated truck, and Mom envisions herself helping out at the markets.

Kamm will need more help, of course. Some of it will come in the form of interns and volunteers. But she has also hired an assistant - 30-year-old Deirdre Bowers, of West Chester. The two had worked together as interns on another local farm.

To share her enthusiasm and pride, Kamm has printed business cards with the Wild Goose Garden logo and the words Deirdre Bowers, Assistant Farmer.

Listen in as she shows the cards to Bowers for the first time:

"Oh, look. They're so cool," Bowers says, doing a little dance of glee. "I have to give you a hug," she says throwing her arm around her new boss. The two giggle and share an embrace.

"And by the way, I'm not gay," says Kamm. "Everybody thinks I'm gay because I have short hair and know how to use power tools.

"But I'm fem. I have a tea set in my trailer."

In fact, while she and her computer-geek boyfriend are "on a break," Kamm, a graduate of Akiba Hebrew Academy in Merion, has her profile on JDate. She wouldn't mind finding another computer geek, maybe one with family medical benefits.

"In a few years I hope to get married and have kids," she says. Long-term, she wants to start a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) farm in which neighbors buy memberships and work in exchange for their produce.