First, I'd like to thank all of you for your patience with me for the first two weeks of the share deliveries. I definitely misestimated my workload for the season and I've ended up working excessively long hours and still running late for everything! I've already taken the steps I need to improve things. I've dropped my Saturday farmers market and cut down on my wholesale contracts for the rest of the season. Hopefully I've balanced everything out correctly, and will now have everything ready for you going forward on time (and a bit cleaner!)
In other news, there was a hail storm that tore through much of our area on Friday night. I was lucky that despite some golf-ball sized hail balls, it was already dying down by the time in hit the farm. Some plants were killed but nothing so bad that I have to write it off. I will do my best to clean everything up this week, but you may find some leaves on the greens a little torn. Unfortunately, our friends at Eagle Creek Farms did bear the brunt of the storm. John tells me that he doesn't think he lost anything outright either, but he's been set back by a couple of weeks. Hopefully we'll still be seeing some of his carrots and potatoes before the end of the month.
This week you'll be seeing the first beets of the season. These will be baby bunched beets, which are mostly used for the greens but the little beets on the end are super tasty.
The garlic scapes really need to get picked off the garlic plants, so the bunches in the share this week will be double the size of what you've been getting already.
