LOGISTICS
- Going on a trip? You can Hold or Reschedule your pickup for another time by going onto your online profile. This can be done in advance online. OR look at the customization email you receive on Monday and find something like "Can't make it? Reschedule my Delivery". Do this on Monday or Tuesday, before the Customization cutoff time (Wed 7am). Or at any point, let me know you'd like to Donate your share and we'll include it in our weekly donation to the Frederick Food Bank.
- You can pick up your share Thursday or Friday 9am-7pm or Saturday 9am-5pm. We are more available to assist you on Thursdays or Fridays, but all three days are available to you.
WHAT'S GROWING ON
We continue to watch the heavier crops come into harvest. Zucchini is starting to roll. We'll be harvesting every few days to keep up with it. It's growing just to the right of the hoophouse, so check out the crop when you are here. Squash plants are so big, with beautiful yellow flowers. It's called "Summer Squash" on the harvest because we might also have patty pan squashes in the bin too. They are slower to start. And this week...broccoli! We have a lot of it and it does not hold well, not on the plant or in the cooler. So get it while it's here! Fun fact: kale makes broccoli too. Plants in the broccoli family all bloom into little edible broccoli shoots which will then bloom into yellow flowers; we eat them all winter off our kale plants. Essentially, broccoli has been bred to bolt into its flower stage and kale has been bred to stay in it's leafy stage longer.
FARM HANDS HEADS UP
Next Farm Hands Day is planting sweet potatoes. Sweet potatoes grow from a sprout that shoots off of a planted sweet potato and its called a slip. We'll be planting sweet potato slips this week, join us. This is a good job for all ages, your little ones can help you plant. I encourage everyone to check out what we are doing this week and learn how they grow...you can track their progress all the way to the September harvest!
Planting sweets: Thursday June 17 11am-1pm
Planting sweets: Friday June 18 9am-1pm
Thank you to those who came to help with the cabbage harvest! We harvested over 150 napa cabbages. They need to be picked right away once they are ready but they hold well in cool storage. We'll be harvesting more round cabbages over the next couple weeks.
What are Farm Hands Days? Sometimes I'll offer up a "Farm Hands" opportunity. These are opportunities to help grow the crops that feed our community. You might be planting or harvesting. You'll learn as you help out!
