We had our best farm stand week ever last week! Thank you to everyone who ordered! Let's keep the momentum going again this week! There's over 20 different vegetables in our inventory, so there's something for everyone. Remember that you can save 25% on your very first farm stand order!
This Week
SO MANY NEW VEGETABLES are available this week! Some are in limited quantity, so get those orders in fast!. New this week we have romaine lettuce, sugar snap peas, fresh dill, purple kohlrabi and chioggia beets. There should be plenty of carrots for everyone! I apologize that we ran out so quickly last week. Our full line up of salad mixes is up for grabs. We also have some incredible bok choy, escarole, and mustard greens, plus fresh herbs like dill, mint and edible flowers.
The rainbow chard rows are my favorite in the garden. It's so colorful and fun! Chard is one of my favorite vegetables to eat that we grow! I use it just like spinach, and it's so much fun for making wraps too. I apologize, but going forward we will no longer offer collard greens in the farm shares for at least another two months. Find out why in our farm update below.
Next Week
We will be able to increase our harvest of sugar snap peas, kohlrabi, and beets. Every week the carrots and scallions will grow in size. Harvest is continuing to look very promising for all of our vegetables growing right now! Cilantro will be ready soon!
Farm Update
Big news! We are now in our first grocery store in Union Parish, Big Star in Farmerville! We have had a great outpouring of support from the community. Big Star ordered 3 times in the last week, because they keep selling out! They are buying a lot of collard greens from us. Until I can step up our production, I will not be able to put any collards in the farm shares. I hope that you will understand. I always try to prioritize our farm share members, but this relationship with Big Star is essential to the survival of our farm.
In other news-it rained almost 5 inches last week here at the farm. It's been sloppy, slow work, but we are still trying to plant a lot of watermelons, cucumbers, bok choys, and salad greens this week. I'm grateful for every drop of rain, and most of all that it didn't all fall at once! Everything is looking really good this week, and we got some incredible growth on our carrot and beet crops.
Thank you all for believing in us and supporting our farm. You mean so much to us, and inspire us to be the best farmers we can be. Later this Spring, I would love to put on another farm to table event here at the farm in Marion, so that we can build even more community around locally grown food.
Your Farmer,
Conrad Cable
