It’s Week 13 of the Summer Farm Share (only 5 more until the winter share starts, you can sign up here)!
Administrative Details
*Please remember to return your cooler bags and clips:)*
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 August 26th 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?
We've got lots of cherry tomatoes. There is still a sad dearth of slicing tomatoes, but honestly cherry tomatoes have way better tomato-flavor, and I hope they fill the void for you.
Our early onions got damaged by leek moth and are less abundant then I had planned for. Luckily our partners at CnA Farm (Cheil & Anne-Marie Farm) in Kincardine are harvesting some onions early for us and we'll have the first ones available this week.
The rainbow carrots continue to delight.
We'll harvest the first handful of peppers this week and now that the temperatures are climbing again, I expect this will ramp up quickly.
We are harvesting the last of the melons this week.
On the Farm
We celebrated Jack's 10th birthday last week with a farm full of friends and family and a table full of strawberry cake. He's developed a real obsession with ants, so most of his birthday gifts ran along that theme. I'm not sure how he got to be 10; all the things people say about time flying are completely true.
It felt like fall this week: one morning the temperature read 5 degrees celcius. While I enjoyed it, I'm glad to see summer has not come to an end.
The one bright spot on our tomato crop failure, is that it's opened up extra time to keep the farm well maintained. I've never had such well weeded fields in late August. It's LOVELY.
That’s all for now, happy eating until next time,
Farmer Tamara
