Pictured above: Mike (my husband and farming partner), Sam (our veteran Tractorista extraordinaire), and Fae (our fabulous Flower Manager) have an impromptu planning sesh at the greenhouse.
*Now that we have more veg offerings we are shifting many of the preserves and canned goods to the Extras section. We'll leave a few items that we have plenty of in the swappable category for a bit longer.
*It's a Markegard Grass-fed Week. Meat can be ordered from the EXTRAS (scroll all the way to the bottom when customizing to see what's available).
*ALERT GARDENERS! DAHLIA BULB SALE We finished out final plant out of dahlias and are selling extra bulbs. Check the EXTRAS.
*PACKING MISTAKES. Please check to see if your orders are complete before you leave your pick up site. If a bunch of items are missing you may have a second box because we couldn't fit it all in one. If something is missing, snap a picture of the label and e-mail it to us. We color code who packed your box in order to try to track where packing errors may be occurring. If something is missing we will issue a credit for the item.
Farm News:
Gosh there's just so much to tell.. In a plot twist to our expected summer fog and clouds, Mother Nature decided to dump rain on us briefly last Tuesday. Not enough to save us any irrigating, but just enough to cause damage to the "Sweet Anne" strawberries- our early heavy producing variety. Strawberries don't like to get wet. :( Despite last week's set back the berries are really kicking into gear. Likely next week we'll start offering whole flats for you smoothie and jam makers.
The kids are out of school and last week we had our own mini "Farm Camp". Carrots were picked and eaten by all. First sized strawberries were consumed. Ellie and her bestie helped push in transplants that weren't deep enough behind the transplanter (pictured left).
Monday the first of a lot of big equipment arrived to our Diaz Flats field, along with many of the critical stakeholders (picture below). They were there to break ground on a huge stream and floodplain restoration project that will be taking place on land that we currently lease from Peninsula Open Space Trust (and eventually hope to own). The project will terrace a large field to create lower areas that will flood seasonally and be allowed to vegetate in riparian vegetation while creating a higher still farmable area. The project will hopefully alleviate flooding issues downstream and benefit our whole watershed. It will go on through the summer till October. Next year in phase two, an existing but silted in irrigation pond will be cleaned out and made larger to create more usable water storage so we can capture more of that Winter runoff for irrigation and not need to pull water from the creek during the dry months.
Don't forget you can customize! One quick tip- look for the little shopping cart in the upper right hand corner of your screen and click on it. It's much easier to view what is in your box and edit it from that window. Over 80% of you are customizing, but we know from the phone calls and e-mails that some of you are still finding it difficult to navigate or haven't figured it out altogether.
