Welcome! This is the beginning of our 23rd CSA season! Please take a look at our first newsletter of the year, Farm Notes. In it you will find some farmer introductions, as well as a few recipes and some general good words from good people.
As we look at the lists of vegetables from Week Ones of the past, we see that this has indeed been a chilly spring. The list is shorter in 2022 than it was in 2020 after a long warm winter and spring. The vegetables are growing beautifully and slowly. As usual, this is a week of salad fixings. We planted the first lettuce in the field on March 30 and the first radishes shortly after that. It took the carrots more than two weeks to poke their heads out of the soil -- we planted them too early (March 21 in a fit of hopefulness) and they will be ready when they want to be ready, but they are all weeded beautifully. With all the rains of May, they have had every advantage.
Our crew is made up of almost all returning workers -- this is quite unusual to be so lucky. The spring has been relaxed from a management perspective, with everyone knowing where to go and how to do the tasks of planting, mulching, covering the tender crops, weeding and hoeing, going to markets. And because we have a seasoned crew, we will be able to open our Vienna CSA at 10 AM on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from the very start of the year. Ordinarily it takes us at least a month to learn how to get it all done, and we keep you waiting until noon.
As we remind you so often, we encourage you to indulge in the vegetables that are in season and don't look ahead and don't look back. Just live in the moment. What you see is what is ready in this area. It will never look like Whole Foods! The offerings are high quality, extremely fresh, and sometimes rather quirky. But this is exactly the right time to eat kohlrabi. And garlic scapes only happen for about three weeks. Lettuce goes for six weeks and then suddenly it is gone.
For more recipe ideas you can find us on Pinterest!
