We will be harvesting and packing your CSA boxes this Thursday! We managed to secure special permission to get to the farm to tend crops and animals and cobbled together market and CSA this weekend. We are so grateful that the farm didn't burn, so grateful for the efforts of neighbors, firefighters, heroes.. but are still in shock as we realize how many in our community lost homes or are still displaced or effected. We all need a good cry, I think.
While the mornings continue to blanket the farm in a dark thick cover of smoke, the Coastal breeze manages to blow it off by early afternoon and the crops aren't waiting for CalFire to finish up! Today we checked the fields while helicopters pulled water from a nearby ag reservoir. The fire got/is very close and CalFire is still putting out flare ups and trying to fully get control, but they say that on our end everything is contained.
Pandemic... Kids at home 24-7.. a few weekends ago our 3 year old had to be flown via helicopter to Stanford Children's and spent 2 nights in the hospital after a fall. (she's fine thank goodness). Now a massive wildfire.. #2020 When will this year let up!
We are bit discombobulated after a week of living out of our car (4 days of camping and then 4 days at former CSA Site host's guest house - Thank you so much Betsy Chung and family!!!) While we got permission to go to the farm for care for crops and animals last Thursday with a limited list of crew and were able to get more people on that list each day since, our team are scattered in hotels and with family or friends all over the greater Bay area, so things are a bit of a mess. We are going to do our best to salvage the abundance of crops we've been unable to pick for the last week. The crops are alive thanks to our heroic irrigation manager Sergio, who stayed in Pescadero and kept everything watered, and crew member Alfredo Gomez, who kept the chickens fed and cared for.
It's slow process to try to pick and throw all the produce that is past and in some cases a lost cause, but many crops held ok and we're now trying to figure out what we can do with an overabundance.
We know there are many questions... please have patience as we try to sort it all out in the coming week. PS we won't be offended if you remind us, we are wading through 100's of questions and things can get lost.
What's new?
Lots of yummy items to chose from this week, so many that it's getting a bit unwieldy ;) Italian Sweet peppers are on, as are beefsteak and a few other tomatoes, a few more varieties of apples are ready, Canteloupes are crazy amazing.. heaps of artichokes right now, and more.
