Lettuce Rejoice! June 6, 2024 - Week 1 Summer Farm Share

It’s Week 1 of the Summer Farm Share!

Administrative Details

*Please remember to return your cooler bags and label clips.  They are shockingly expensive and we are forever running low :)*

You are getting this email to let you know it’s time to customize your share, you will have until 9:00 p.m. on Monday June 3rd to do so.   

Here’s a how to file: https://harvie.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/1260802865550-Customizing-Your-Box-

If you run into any issues, please email support@harvie.zendesk.com, you can also reach out to me at firmlyrootedfarm@gmail.com 

If you run into issues at your pick-up, please reach out to me at 519 441 1556.

Harvie University

Harvie has excellent help files on all sorts of topics, they call their help file database ‘Harvie University’, you can find it here:

https://harvie.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/categories/115000048773-Harvie-University-Members

What’s in the Box?

This week the farm share is filled with the best spring has to offer: baby greens, head lettuce, bok choi, radishes, turnips, scallions (green onion), cilantro, dill, mint, kohlrabi, and beets!  We are pretty delighted with these perfect and delicious vegetables.

While the rhubarb is abundant, the asparagus has slowed down significantly.  We hope it's the cold nights that has it's going from our top harvest of 50 pounds in one day, to an average of just 8 pounds.  Here's hoping the warmer weather this week will coax it to spring forth with more gusto once again. 

On the Farm

Hand weeding will really develop a strong farmer squat.  Hand weeding while Ruby clings to your back can bring superhero legs. Thanks to Michelle for temping Ruby onto her back when I needed a break.  

We had two frost warnings this week, which were a little suprising after hitting 30+ degree temps in April.  I'm usually pretty cautious, but did plant out some zucchini a few weeks ago when the long range forcast looked amenable. The zuc's spent a couple of days under two layers of row cover and made it through.  I'm glad the watermelons and squash are on next week's schedule and we didn't need to baby them through the cold as well. 

 There's never a dull moment in farming.  

 I'm a sucker for flowers and the farm is bursting with foxgloves, peonies, and lupins at the moment. It's such a dreamy place.

Brian is a sucker for poultry, and he just hatched a 12(ish) ducks and geese.  They are almost unbearably cute. 

That’s all for now, happy eating until next time,

Farmer Tamara