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 hot. There's so much to do. We work hard. We don't get enough sleep.
This is a recipe for silliness! When the going gets tough, we try to keep things as light as possible with a laugh!
It seems this season has been a challenging one not just for us but for many other small farmers I follow across the country on Instagram. Many of them have been facing the same hot and dry weather or hot and too wet weather this summer and the extra work those conditions bring.
We are lucky to have good irrigation and ample water on our farm, which makes the job of irrigating a whole lot easier. However, when it's hot and dry, irrigation can become a part-time job on any farm.
We try to design our irrigation systems to be simple and easy to use, but it still takes time to make sure there are no leaks, the water is going where it's supposed to and to make sure that we don't over or under water our crops (or make an unintentional pond in our fields!).
Most of the irrigation we use is drip irrigation. This works in a similar way to a soaker hose, and many of you have seen the video of the cool piece of equipment we use to lay the drip tape a few inches under the soil in our vegetable beds. Using drip tape helps us put water right where the plants need it and reduces the amount of water that is lost from evaporation when using sprinklers. We still use sprinklers too, but only in the field where we plant salad greens! Water is one of our most important resources on this planet and anything that we can do to help reduce what we use is in the best interest of our future generations.
Stay cool and keep it silly this week!
Happy Eating,
Farmer Chloe
