It's getting hot! If you are on our delivery route, please consider leaving a small ice chest/cold bag out for your share.
This Week
The first rounds of tomatoes are finally ripening, so I will have some available as add ons for the next few weeks until production ramps up. We have a few eggplants, lots of squash, cucumbers, colorful carrots, and every other root crop known to man! Salad and shoots is on again this week.
Farm Update
It takes three different roles to keep a business going. The entrepreneur, the manager, and the engineer. This week, I was a bit of all three at once. This week is wild. Carter will be filming our work for two days on Wednesday and Friday. I fly out with Sprout for 4 days on Sunday. To add even more to the pile, I decided last week that we HAD to insulate and air condition the wash and pack station. Dad and I started on Friday evening and have easily put in 40 hours each into the demo and rebuild since then. I didn't even go down to the fields yesterday, and there was a dadgum compost delivery. I have been narrowly focused on knocking this project out. Building projects are not my thing. I can get frustrated easily. Multiple measurements and adjustments are always needed, and my Dad is incapable of putting a tool back in a central spot. But after a while I got the hang of it. The good news is that even though I got behind schedule, we will wrap up that project today! As soon as this inventory is posted, I'll go back to installing the window unit.
This is life changing stuff I'm talkin' here! The walls made of tarps are gone, and now there are 3 inches of insulation and a wall that's easy to clean! Going forward, we can wash and pack vegetables at any time of the day. We have had to shut the washing down at noon now that it's hot, plus it's not fun out there when it's below 30 either! Kaden and I can now harvest together and wash and pack as a team. The washing can also be scheduled. This is going to save us so many countless hours over the years-- it was worth working really hard the past few days to get it done!
P.S. - You made it this far! Please note if there are any extra tomatoes, I will add them on Thursday morning, so please check back before 10 AM if you receive a tomato email.
