welcome to the Summer CSA! Whether you're continuing with us from a previous CSA season, been a loyal customer for many years, or just joining us for the first time, we thank you for being a part of our farm and for welcoming our produce into your kitchen.
You are integral in supporting local agriculture!
Garden 6 (G6) head lettuce is loving the heat, sun, with some rain.
The peas, also in G6 interplanted with some Radishes.
It has been full speed ahead the last few weeks getting soil prepped and plants in the ground both in greenhouses and outside in our gardens. Early tropical plants such as Tomatoes, Cucumbers, and Peppers requiring heat and other plants we want to protect with cover have gone in greenhouses or one of our two CAT tunnels. Now that the cold nights have passed the outside gardens have been filling up with more greens successions, zucchini, winter squash and pumpkins, as well as herbs, and field cucumbers, peppers, and tomatoes. The team has been working hard to set ourselves up for a successful and bountiful season.
Above: Greenhouse 11 (GH11) was erected on the site of our second garden here at the farm. This area has been transformed! We have a few seedlings still available for sale if you are interested. We are also offering them as a choice this week.
The cover crop planted in the side beds of GH3 has popped up.
The broccolini harvest has begun! We are excited to have this for you as an option.
We watched these little ones hatch, grow and then leave the nest this spring. The mother sneakily built her nest in a seedling sale tray of peppermint!
GH4 cherry tomatoes are beginning to ripen in earnest, all that work this winter and spring has paid off. We also have cherry tomatoes in GH10. Take a walk around the farm when you come pick up your share to see these first hand.
Evrald was integral in prepping and planting all of our Greenhouses starting with GH4 back in February. We trellis each plant on a string, pruning them to a single stem.
Pickup
Come anytime between 3 pm and 6 pm to choose your share on the day you chose when you signed up, so either Monday or Thursday.
Please bring your own bags or box to gather your choices. To find the pickup location look for the CSA sign and tent left and straight ahead after driving into the farm!
Written under the bin or crate holding each item available to choose from will be the size of 1 choice. So for example, some weeks a cucumber choice will be one single cucumber, another week it could be 2 cucumbers. Jaime and Mikaela will be present and able to help answer any questions you may have as you select your share.
If you signed up for an add-on, there will be a shelf with coffee, eggs, beef and pork sausage for you to take. The PYO and Bouquet flower CSA starts in late July, when the patch starts blooming in earnest!
Remember to contact us in advance if you will be unable to pick up on Thursday, so that we can store your share in our walk-in refrigerator to keep it fresh. You can email or call us to let us know. Thank you to all of those who have already arranged another time to pickup!
To keep track of choices taken we will provide you with a Tally Sheet upon arrival to pickup your share. This example is from September of Last year. You will notice a few things:
Must take item(s) will already be checked off. If you would like to take a second of the must take items, add a second tick mark next to the item.
On the bottom of the tally sheet circle your share size as a reminder of how many choices you get to take. The number includes the must take item(s) if there are any checked off above already.
The tally sheet allows us to keep track of what was taken to improve our selection from week to week and year to year for our CSA.
Here's what you will find in this weeks share:
Everyone gets to take Lettuce
Full shares receive an additional 11 choices
Small shares receive an additional 7 choices.
Want some recipe ideas?
CHECK OUT THE CSA RECIPE PAGE!
Your Farmer, Sam (For Tim, Mikaela, Jeannie, Jim, Evrald, Shawn, Jav, Colin, Jaime, Wyatt, Ani, Tobi, Franconia, Riley, and Ridge)