Well, it's our final week of saying it, but a big welcome to everyone that's joining us for the first time this week! If you want to catch up on some of our previous farm happenings, here's your chance:
Week of June 15th: https://www.harvie.farm/happenings/harvest-thyme-farm/15710/farm-happening-for-the-week-of-june-15th
Week of June 8th: https://www.harvie.farm/happenings/harvest-thyme-farm/15526/farm-happening-for-the-week-of-june-8th
Week of June 1st: https://www.harvie.farm/happenings/harvest-thyme-farm/15366/farm-happenings-for-week-of-june-1st-2
Well, a nice warm, sunny week sure got things moving around here, which means more variety will start finding it's way into your boxes over the coming week(s). After a slow start, it's nice to finally see it all coming together the way we had planned when we laid it all out in January. Things always take so long to get settled before really taking off, sometimes it gets hard to be patient. This year has thrown weeks at us that things seemed like they didn't really grow at all and others where it seemed like they grew a whole bunch just overnight.
The hot weather isn't so great for our cool weather crops like broccoli and peas, but for now, they're holding their own and it looks like they're about to get a break from the 80+ degrees we've been having - at least for a few days. The good news, though, is that for every crop that doesn't enjoy the heat, there are plenty that benefit from it - it's all part of the balance we try to strike to make sure we can continually fill your boxes with something good no matter what the weather throws at us. We go into each season knowing the odds are stacked solidly against us that every crop will grow perfectly, but more than likely, more crops will grow well than those that don't. It's always tough to have crops that just don't quite do what they've got the potential to, because we tend to get excited over that potential each time we plant a new crop, but it also lends a lot of merit to the diversified approach small farms like ours take that keep us viable over the long haul as we're not running the gauntlet of the summer season with everything at risk over the marginal odds of success of just a single crop.
Part of stacking the odds a bit more in our favor involves growing crops when they're most likely to succeed, so while summer may have officially just arrived, we're already busy prepping for fall. Crops that like to mature in cool weather like celery and Brussels sprouts were planted this past week and others like cauliflower that we aim for the cooler fall weeks are being seeded in the greenhouse each week now. But, enough of this fall talk, we've got another few months to enjoy first!
Hope everyone enjoys their first full official week of summer!
-Brendan & Greta
