Hi farm friends!
We continue on to our fourth week of the farm share. The solstice has passed, the robins have flown the nest, the light is long, and summer is here.
Important Green Bag Reminder
Please remember to return your green bags every week. If you get home delivery, please leave your previous green bag(s) outside your door. The bags are an investment and we have only a set amount of them, so we are relying on them being returned. Thanks!
Remember to Customize Your Share
Our software, Harvie, creates a share for you based on your preference. But you get to alter this share by going into your account and swapping or adding items. You can do this until just before midnight on Tuesday. It’s the best way to get the most out of your farm share experience.
PRO TIP: Customize your share more than once! As people customize their shares, different items may come available. You can always check it out a second time closer to the cut-off time to see if anything has popped up.
Chicken Share This Week
If you signed up for your chicken share, this week will be the first pick up! Important Note: Chickens can only be picked up at the farm, since they’ll be frozen. If you have a market pick up, then please contact me to arrange a time to come and pick up your chicken at the farm.
What’s in the Share this Week:
This is the last week for garlic scapes, so grab them while you can. Zucchini season is upon us, and we have our first beets and cucumbers and carrots of the year, and our first planting of sugarsnap and shelling peas is beginning to produce! It’s nice to be coming into July, when the amount of produce in the field begins to diversify away from primarily greens things.
On The Farm
Still no rain! Things are starting to get dry and we spend a lot of time prioritizing irrigation. Call down some rain for us, please. We are weeding, tarping, planting, bed prepping, pruning, seeding. This time of year we start watching in anticipation as the things we have planted begin to grow (or not??). Our tomatoes are almost as tall as me and the peppers are leafing out, cucumbers are going wild, but the eggplants and cabbages aren’t doing too much. We have a lot of control when things are young transplants growing in the greenhouse, but once they’re in the field there’s a lot of hoping and guessing. Farming is a test of resilience, every year. We are so grateful for the team of wonderful people who have found our farm and help make the magic of vegetables happen out there in the field.
Thanks for keeping us growing!
Your farmer,
Kim
