At this time of year, our weeks begin to move to the rhythm of the harvest schedule as a colorful parade of produce marches in from the garden. There's the steady beat of season-long staples like gem lettuce, mixed lettuce, beets, and carrots. The flourishes of fleeting seasonal favorites like garlic scapes and sugar snap peas. And a swelling crescendo that will soon burst into a chorus of potatoes, tomatoes, and peppers. All the while, the pasture grows at a quickening tempo, matching the songs of bobolinks, meadowlarks, and other grassland birds, and the appetites of cattle, pigs, and laying hens. A musician friend once described the farm as a "barnyard symphony," and in June, after months of relative rest and quiet, we can't help but hear its music at every turn.
Your farmer,
Zach
