CSA Info!
- Remember, you have lots of ways you can modify your share to meet the needs of your family's tastes and busy schedules! Login to your Harvie account anytime to change your delivery date or location, edit your veggie preferences or to add additional contacts so everyone in your family gets important emails from us!
- Remember to store your veggies in the best possible conditions so they last as long as possible! Come as early as you can to your pick up location to reduce the amount of time your veggies are out of refrigeration. Less spoilage means less guilt and less money wasted! To find storage tips and lots of other info check out our CSA Training Library (only through this link!)
It's mid-July and for CSA vegetable farmers this is an insane time of year. Typically it's hot (even though we've had this weather for about 2 months now!) and everything is happening at once on the farm!
July is the month where vegetable farmers transition from spring (cool weather) crops to summer (heat loving) crops, which often means we are harvesting more and more and more crops each week. Which is exciting and exhausting!
Also around this time in July, we are making the push to plant all of our fall (cool weather) crops. It seems absolutely crazy to be thinking about fall and winter when you are sweating at 7am, but we are approaching the all important date of 60 days before the first killing frost. Where we are located, the average first killing frost is around October 6th. That means we've got about 3 weeks to plant anything that we hope to harvest from the fields this season. Many crops take about 60 days to mature. Some crops are much shorter like radishes (21 days) and some are much longer like winter squash (100 days)!
On top of all this rapid-fire planting we have to do, it's hot and we typically have to irrigate, tend to the crops that are already in the field, harvest 3 days per week for CSA and markets, and try and stay ahead of the weeds! Needless to say it doesn't all get done exactly how we would like it to.
Much of farming (and life for that matter) is about continuous improvement. We are always learning on the farm and more often than not we learn from mistakes. Some mistakes are just errors, but many of the mistakes that we make also open our eyes to seeing a way to improve what we are doing, even if it is in an incremental way.
Enjoy the first tastes of summer this week,
Farmer Chloe
