Hello, welcome to the Spring season! Hopefully you all read carefully the welcome letter, and I don't have to repeat any of it here. Except to remind you that you have until 10 A.M. monday to make sunstitutions to your share, or, if you are participating in farmstand, to order. We are offering only a very limited farmstand this week, due to the earliness of the season and the weather. The spring has been cold-until last weekend-- and very wet, which has presented us with a problem I have never encountered before in 17 years of farming this land: slugs! I was going to put one on the picture below but thought maybe you'd prefer to see the first rose of Summer instead (it's a simple species rose, nothing fancy, but a rose is a rose is a rose, what?)
oops, that's not a rose at all but a bird's nest I found the other day... lets try again...
nope, that's one of our friendly neighborhood blacksnakes, another sure sign of summer. Like many teenagers, these guys like to hibernate for a long time!
At last!! Anyways, the slugs did some real damage and some items are in short supply this week because of it, but I'm hoping that if I ignore the problem hard enough it will go away. I know that the above pictures don't really have much to do with your vegetable shares, but a farm consists of much more than the products it sells and my goal is to give you a picture that, while not complete (which were impossible) is at least well rounded.
Hot tip: the salad turnips and radishes are really good this week, despite a few holes in the leaves due to our aforementioned friends. They're not really our friends but I don't want to enrage them further by calling them names.
Next week I'm expecting the first of the strawberries-- I hope-- and a few kohlrabi.
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