Well, here we are-- week one of twenty- two exciting weeks of adventures in produce. For all that people decry modern times, it is nothing short of a golden era for vegetables, with species and varieties once available only in far off lands being grown right here. And then there's the recent (300 years or so) advances in breeding, which have given us such gems as broccoli, salad turnips, carrots not intended for livestock, things that taste good, store well and are easy to grow... truly dizzying.
The above photo is of one of Evelyn's bunny rabbits, named "Bucky". (For those of you new to rabbit culture male rabbits are called "bucks" and females "does", just like deer or goats). We are not a livestock farm by any means, but we do keep some animals for pleasure or, in my case, for milk and aggravation (I keep dairy goats). What's the point of living in the country if you can't hear roosters crowing all morning and half the night?
I really hope everyone has read the welcome letter. if you didn't, please, please do so now. here is a link to it. https://www.harvie.farm/admin/mailing-list/preview/25631
If you have any questions, please ask them now!
my email: jadefamilyfarm@gmail.com or text (don't call, it doesn't work) 717 585 4897
Two items I want to plug this week: the salad turnips and the tokyo bekana. The turnips are one of those miracles of modern breeding-- sweet, juicy, not bitter and NOT your grandmother's turnip! We eat them raw, like radishes, in salad. No need to peel. And the Tokyo Bekana-- I use it just like spinach in any recipe, but it doesn't make my teeth feel all funny afterwards. Does anyone know what I mean?
We have a few carrots and fingerling sweet potatoes left from last winter. They are still fine, but I wanted you to know they weren't dug yesterday!
I was hoping to treat everyone to a nice big rhubarb harvest, but alas, the hot dry weather has NOT been kind to it.
One last note: I'm working on revamping the item descriptions to give you a little more useful information. It is a work in progress, though, so some of them (most of them, actually, as of this writing) are still rough around the edges or not yet written.
