We've been busy, busy planting this week! We had to wait until another frost Tuesday night (I know it probably didn't frost at your house, but it did here), but once that was behind us, we got cranking planting warm season crops outside! We transplanted thousands of peppers, tomatoes and eggplant in just the last couple days. We also seeded the first green beans, pole beans and okra. With this warm spell, the soil temperatures should rise enough to get those plants off to a good start. So, the farm is really filling up now! What we need is a little rain. Our irrigation pond is dangerously low now, so we're watering in the transplants sparingly and praying for an inch or two of rain to help out in the process. There are decent chances of rain most days this week, so we're praying one of those potential rains becomes a reality. If we have to, we can switch to city water, but that's expensive and a real pain because of the limited flow rate. If we do that we'll be running around opening and closing valves to spread the water around in very limited areas rather than watering large sections of the farm at once. What we really need is for the springs to recharge so our pond can stay full.
Featured items
Salad mix and carrots are doing amazing right now, so we'll put a ton of that on the availability for the week. We're quickly harvesting spinach and carrots out of one of our high tunnels to make room for peppers and tomatoes! Normally we would have already cleared them out by now, but the cool spring made everything a bit behind schedule. The transplants are getting a bit big and really need to get planted, so please eat some spinach and carrots!
What if I missed my share?
For all locations except the Brookside porch pickup, your share will end up back at the farm where you can pick it up whenever you'd like if you wish. All shares left until Tuesday at noon are taken to local food pantries and shelters by David Earls, one of our amazing CSA member volunteers. Here are instructions for where to find your share by pickup location:
Brookside: sorry, you are out of luck. We don't have your share.
Friday self-serve: your share stays in the same shed-looking cooler near the house.
Thursday Farm, Lee's Summit and Overland Park shares all go into the white trailer looking cooler next to the house.
You can help yourself to your share. Just look for your label. The farm address is: 26355 E Bundschu Rd, Independence, MO 64056.
Bread and Cheese
Farm to Market Sourdough Artisan Loaf
Hemme Brothers "Brother's Keeper" block
We never get tired of saying it, but we appreciate your membership. Keeping you fed, keeps our family and employees fed and we sure enjoy doing what we were doing so thanks for helping to make our rather unusual lifestyle possible. We hope you reap some benefits from knowing your farmers.
Enjoy the harvest,
Dave and Sheri
