Summer CSA Pickup #7

July 26, 2025

Greens and Flowers

Harvesting greens: Arugula, Baby Kale, Spinach, and Lettuce Mix, has been primarily moved to the Oxbow where 3 different successions are growing. With the heat and humidity they have grown quickly. Arugula takes about 21 days to go from planting to harvest, however the grow back has been spotty, so we get just one high quality east harvest. A second harvest takes a bit of work to sort out the bad leaves, bug damage, etc. Spinach takes the longest usually resulting in a harvest about 30-35 days after planting. As we move into the Fall (yes we know summer is still here, however at the farm we are thinking about the fall already!) and the daylight hours decrease, the time to harvest will increase and we will begin to bulk up the amount of spinach we are planting. The spinach tends to quickly bolt in the heat of the summer.

The newest succession of greens are coming up in Garden 5. After the first outside succession of spinach in the spring, these beds were mowed and then covered with a sileage tarp. The sileage tarp heats the soil up and breaks down the mowed greens, it also provides a good environment for weed seeds to germinate but then perish under the tarp without sunlight. After about 4-ish weeks we uncover the beds, gently rake and in this case plant arugula, lettuce mix, and spinach. After planting we put the tarp On again for 48 hours to ensure even germination. Once the season gets going, greens are planted, harvested, and beds turned over weekly.

Below Sam mowed lettuce further up in Garden 5 this week before covering.

PYO flowers have opened up for the season. We are excited to see buds turn to blooms and the variety of beautiful flowers and colors coming up. If you haven’t taken a walk by the s since the PYO peas, go for it, take a walk around and see the changes.

We turned the sugar snap pea beds over to fall Salanova head lettuce and the 2 beds of carrots you enjoyed over by the asparagus are now an oats and peas cover crop.

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.

If you signed up for an add-on, don’t forget to pickup your Coffee, Flowers, Eggs, and Pork sausage.

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!

Here's what you will find in this weeks share:

Everyone gets to take 1 bunch of Kale

Full shares receive an additional 11 choices and

Small shares receive an additional 7 choices.

Please use the tally sheets to keep track of the number of choices you are taking at pickup. We want to make sure you receive all 8 choices if you are a small share and 12 choices if you are a large share!

CHECK OUT THE CSA RECIPE PAGE!

Your Farmer, Sam (For Tim, Mikaela, Jeannie, Jim, Evrald, Shawn, Jav, Jeb, Colin, Jaime, Wyatt, Ani, Sophie, and Jess)

Summer CSA Pickup #6

July 20, 2025

Animals

Our boar Buttons and our sows, Penny, Patty, Myrtle, Altouise, and Astrid primarily live in the old goat barn. We do separate the sows to their own pen when they are about to farrow (give birth). The gestation period for a pig is 3 months, 3 weeks, and 3 days, or about 114 days. We hope to have some piglets running around the farm in the next few weeks!

The three donkeys, Milton (dad), Summer (mom), and Buckwheat (son), are all in their 20’s and enjoy their time on the farm, sunning, sharing space with our 5 goats, and saying hello to visitors when they aren’t feeling so shy.

When you walk out to the blueberries, you can visit the goats and donkeys in the back pasture we call Bobby’s World after our original goat buck. These 5 goats are what is left of the herd from a few years ago. Even though we no longer milk goats and make cheese, they are an important part of the farm maintaining pastures, saying hello to visitors and keeping the donkeys company.

The cows move between 3 different pastures and until recently the males and the females were in separate locations to avoid having calves born in the cold of winter. With a gestation period of 283 days, just a few days longer than a human, becoming pregnant now will result in a calf born at the end of April which is far better than a calf born in a February snow storm.

To maintain our high number of chickens we purchase a new batch of 9 week old pullets every May. This May things fell through at the last minute and the hens we had ordered never came. As a result we only have last years batch of hens on the farm and don’t have the additional 800 birds we had anticipated. An indirect result of the bird flu. We are looking into raising day old chicks again for 2026, we will see!

Garlic

Garlic going in the ground October 20, 2024 for a July 2025 harvest.

About 13,000 heads of garlic came out of the ground over the last few days. A big effort by the team went into making this happen efficiently, speedily, and thoughtfully. We treat garlic similar to how you would an apple: gentle so it does not bruise. With such a large volume coming out of the ground, adequate space and systems to dry and cure the garlic were refined. Rather than curing the garlic in GH1 as we have done in previous years, the garlic has settled onto stacked tables under the shed roof off the back of the pole barn. In the shade and open provides a good breezy environment for the garlic to cure for storage. If you want to learn more about the garlic growing process, check out our CSA newsletter on garlic from last summer.

What a week

A few weeks ago you may recall watching the time lapse video of cover crop getting crimped. We have found crimping does not always adequately terminate a cover crop. After years of thinking about it, the farm just purchased a flail mower. A flail mower is an excellent tool for managing cover crops, at it chops the plants into fine pieces that break down quickly, returning nutrients to the soil while preserving ground cover and structure. Unlike rotary mowers, it handles thick biomass and uneven terrain with ease, making it ideal for no-till or reduced-till systems. The resulting mulch helps suppress weeds and retain moisture, setting the stage for the next crop. The inaugral mow on another section of G7 was a huge success.

Cherry tomatoes are now in 4 different greenhouses

Evrald harvested the first slicing tomatoes of the season last week.

Oxbow Team Meeting checking out G4 and the very diverse cover crop mix growing. 5% of this mix is sunflowers.

General maintaining and harvesting have been on the docket most days right now, however we did take a team field trip over to the Oxbow to see the progress.

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.

If you signed up for an add-on, don’t forget to pickup your Flowers, Eggs, and Pork sausage.

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!

Here's what you will find in this weeks share:

Full shares receive an 12 choices and

Small shares receive 8 choices.

Please use the tally sheets to keep track of the number of choices you are taking at pickup. We want to make sure you receive all 8 choices if you are a small share and 12 choices if you are a large share!

CHECK OUT THE CSA RECIPE PAGE!

Your Farmer, Sam (For Tim, Mikaela, Jeannie, Jim, Evrald, Shawn, Jav, Jeb, Colin, Jaime, Wyatt, Ani, Sophie, and Jess)

Summer CSA Pickup #5

July 12, 2025

Fruits of our Labor

Jess, Mikaela, and Addison spent a busy Thursday packing up greens, for the farm stand, Littleton Food Coop, and CSA.

Addison, has been keeping a watchful eye on all that happens at the farm making sure the washroom is running smoothly! We appreciate her smiles and presence.

Shawn has been the primary carrot harvester, pulling these beauties out of Garden 1 by the Asparagus patch. We will have carrots back in the CSA hopefully this week.

Jeb, Colin, Shawn, and Jaime all working hard washing and packaging veggies for the CSA and wholesale accounts.

Evrald needed the ladder to prune and trellis GH4 cherry tomatoes. We are harvesting sometimes up to 130 pints in a single day as we also have cherry tomatoes of different ages in 3 other greenhouses as well.

Blueberries

This week Jav embarked on the task of weed wacking the blueberries. Jim meticulously mows them (and the rest of the farm) throughout the spring and summer, however we wait to clear closely around the bushes for PYO until the ripening begins.

21 seasons ago, when Tim began the farm, he envisioned PYO blueberries and Compost and began planting blueberries in the best field on the property, extending the patch all the way to the woods where Garden 7 currently resides. As the farm expanded into more than just blueberries and compost, the patch was consolidated, bushes were dug up and sold and greenhouses 8 and 9 and gardens 7 and 8 were established and constructed. The patch used to extend all the way to the woods where we now have Garden 7. As the self guided sign says above there are 5 different varieties of blueberries (Blue Crop, Blue Ray, Northland, Northray, and Patriot) that are beginning to ripen. We invite you to use one of your choices at pickup to pick-your-own pint.

Tim filling pints with the sweet blueberry crop back in 2016.

September 2009: Blueberry Patch has been consolidated to make room for Garden 7: on right side of the photo to the left of the woods.

October 2011: Blueberries and a planted Garden 7

September 2015: Notice the blueberry patch has been consolidated more making room for Garden 8

June 2025: In the last decade Garden 8 has shrunk to 4 long beds with GH8 and GH9 on either side.

Flowers

The bountiful, beautiful, bright, fragrant colors of the flower gardens are beginning to emerge bringing bouquets and specifically the PYO Flower Add-on of the CSA.

For more information on our flowers, check out the tour sign out by the PYO flower garden! You can also check out the video on our flowers below.

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.

If you signed up for an add-on, don’t forget to pickup your Coffee, Eggs, and Pork sausage.

The PYO and Bouquet flower CSA also starts up this week, so blooms are in your future!

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!

Here's what you will find in this weeks share:

Everyone gets to take: Curly or Lacinato Kale

PLEASE REMEMBER:

Full shares receive an additional 11 choices and

Small shares receive an additional 7 choices.

Please use the tally sheets to keep track of the number of choices you are taking at pickup. We want to make sure you receive all 8 choices if you are a small share and 12 choices if you are a large share!

CHECK OUT THE CSA RECIPE PAGE!

Your Farmer, Sam (For Tim, Mikaela, Jeannie, Jim, Evrald, Shawn, Jav, Jeb, Colin, Jaime, Wyatt, Ani, Sophie, and Jess)

Summer CSA Pickup #4

July 5, 2025

How’s it going?

We hope you have enjoyed welcoming Meadowstone Farm into your kitchen during the first 3 weeks of the CSA. Thank you for all the feedback, questions and thoughts provided to us so far, keep it coming!

Are there things you would like to change about your 2025 Summer CSA share? If so, let us know by email or phone before your next pickup!

Options include switching share size from Small to Full or Full to Small or changing add-ons. Coffee, Flowers, and Pork Sausage are all available options. We can only offer refunds for Eggs as there are no more Egg Add-ons available for purchase.

If your CSA changes require a partial refund, the amount will be added to your Farm Bucks account in our farm-stand to be used at your convenience on any item we sell in the stand. Don't have an account? We will set one up for you!

If you owe us, bring a check on your pickup day, Monday or Thursday.

To change something about your CSA just shoot us an email with the subject "CSA Changes" and then touch base with Jaime or Sophie on Monday or Thursday.

Due to the administrative work and CSA organization, this is the week of the CSA season to make a change if you would like to make one.

—-No need to reach out to us unless you are interested in changing a part of your CSA.—-

When we were not harvesting, weeding and pruning, and transitioning gardens and greenhouses were the focus this week. More cover crops were mowed while more were planted. The seedling sale came to an end freeing up GH2 which now has been prepped and planted and GH3 cucumbers (which we talked about not too long ago in a spring CSA newsletter) have all been pulled to make way for a cover crop. Sometimes moving on from a crop can be painful when things don’t work out as expected, and these early cucumbers check that box. Spring moisture and cool weather made way for some downy mildew. Cucumber beetles recognized the stressed plants and rapidly moved in. We pruned them aggressively about 9 days ago and finally made the decision this week to move on. Focusing on soil health in GH2 with a cover crop of mustards and then the next cash crop of pole beans gives us hope for the longevity of GH2.

After Shawn mowed the cover crop in G1 at the Oxbow (above), Tim used a seeding tractor implement to drill cover crop seed directly into the mowed cover crop (below). Multiple rounds of cover crop in the same location nurtures and regenerates soil and increases organic matter.

While at the Oxbow on Thursday Tim took the video below of Garden 3. Future garden beds, followed by garlic, potatoes, then beets and carrots and a few more future beds.

As you know from this newsletter and previous newsletters weed management begins to rise to the top of the never ending to-do list this time of year. Some of the methods we use to manage weeds: basket weed, hand weed, use sileage tarps and fabric, flame weed, weed wack, mow. In some cases we want all the weeds completely gone, while in other cases we “manage” the weeds knowing 80% are dealt with while maybe 20% still remain. Mowing the weeds in pathways for example leaves debris to hinder growth; we haven’t pulled the weeds, but are dealing with them in a productive way.

(Below)Evrald, Jav, and Tim have all been using the large flame weeder at the oxbow to clean up beds before germinated beet and carrot seeds poke through the soil.

Saying goodbye to GH3 early cucumbers

Above: GH2 transformation from seedlings to more cherry tomatoes and basil.

Right: GH2 seedling sale plants.

GH8 with cucumbers on the southern most spot. If you look carefully you can see Jeb and Colin collecting carrots in the middle spot.

Those carrots you received last week were bulk harvested by Colin and Jeb out in GH8M. These were planted back in April under the protection of the greenhouse. We then rolled the greenhouse to the next spot and planted cucumbers once we knew the carrots, beets, and turnips and radishes would be alright.

Pickup

If you are unable to pickup, please let us know so we can put your share aside to be picked up at your earliest convenience.

PLEASE REMEMBER TO BRING BAGS!

Woodland Community School Camp children and parents may be still in and around the driveway, please be careful navigating the parking lot.

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.

Here's what you will find in this weeks share:

Everyone gets to take: White Sweet Onions

PLEASE REMEMBER:

Full shares receive an additional 11 choices and

Small shares receive an additional 7 choices.

Please use the tally sheets to keep track of the number of choices you are taking at pickup. We want to make sure you receive all 8 choices if you are a small share and 12 choices if you are a large share!

CHECK OUT THE CSA RECIPE PAGE!

Your Farmer, Sam (For Tim, Mikaela, Jeannie, Jim, Evrald, Shawn, Jav, Jeb, Colin, Jaime, Wyatt, Ani, Sophie, and Jess)

Summer CSA Pickup #3

June 29, 2025

Cover Cropping

Cover cropping is an important tool for caring for our soil and adapting to the challenges of our northern climate. With short growing seasons, protecting soil from erosion and building organic matter is essential and by planting cover crops like oats, peas, vetch, rye, buckwheat or clover between harvests, we improve soil structure, boost fertility, and help increase organic matter. This supports healthier vegetables, and a more resilient farm.

This spring Woodland Community School (the school here on the farm property) students helped us plant sudan grass cover crop seeds in holes where a spring crop of lettuce once resided. The lettuce was cut out so the roots would decompose in the soil and cover crop seeds added.

We were thrilled with the results of vetch and winter rye that came up after the winter in G7. When pollen started dropping from the rye flower we knew it was time to crimp. Crimping cover crops is a way to terminate them without tilling. A roller-crimper bends and crushes the stems, stopping their growth while leaving a thick mulch on the soil surface. This mulch helps suppress weeds, retain moisture, prevent erosion, and feed the soil as it breaks down. We use this method as it supports our efforts to reduce soil disturbance, improve soil health, and grow strong, healthy crops using regenerative practices. Water fills the roller-crimper to add more weight to the implement ensuring the crop doesn’t grow back.

In the coming week we plan on ensuring the cover crop perishes by covering with sileage tarps. We anticipate planting Salanova lettuce into this in August.

Some of you may recall last summer we included the video below of Colin crimping a cover crop in GH2. Check out last summers week #6 newsletter to get the entire picture. Colin planted a cover crop of Oats, Peas, and Beans which promptly germinated and popped up. They outpaced weeds fixing nitrogen, breaking up any hard pan, and provided organic matter for the soil. This set us up for a phenomenal fall crop of Salanova.

Above: Oats, Peas, and Beans starting to germinate and pop up.

Right: Notice the round nitrogen nodules on the roots of the Bean plant.

Beans fix nitrogen taking it from the air and converting to a form useable by the next round of plants that go in the ground. Rather than pull the nitrogen fixing cover crops, we leave the roots in the ground to decompose.

Pickup

If you are unable to pickup, please let us know so we can put your share aside to be picked up at your earliest convenience.

PLEASE REMEMBER TO BRING BAGS!

Woodland Community School Camp children and parents may be still in and around the driveway, please be careful navigating the parking lot.

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.

Here's what you will find in this weeks share:

Everyone gets to take: Head Lettuce

PLEASE REMEMBER:

Full shares receive an additional 11 choices and

Small shares receive an additional 7 choices.

Please use the tally sheets to keep track of the number of choices you are taking at pickup. We want to make sure you receive all 8 choices if you are a small share and 12 choices if you are a large share!

CHECK OUT THE CSA RECIPE PAGE!

Your Farmer, Sam (For Tim, Mikaela, Jeannie, Jim, Evrald, Shawn, Jav, Jeb, Colin, Jaime, Wyatt, Ani, Sophie, and Jess)

Summer CSA Pickup #2

June 19, 2025

Happy Summer Solstice

June 20th marks the summer solstice with over 15 hours and 34 minutes of daylight. That’s nearly 7 hours more light than we see on the winter solstice in December, when daylight drops to just 8 hours and 55 minutes. This abundance of sunlight fuels our fields, driving the photosynthesis that powers every leaf, fruit, and flower on the farm. Combined with healthy soils, long days allow our vegetables to grow rapidly, building sugars and nutrients that create the vibrant flavors we enjoy all season. As farmers, light plays an extremley important role in the work we do. We work in rhythm with the sun, knowing these peak daylight hours are precious for setting strong crops before the shorter days of fall arrive. The solstice reminds us how deeply sunlight shapes the growing process and helps nurture a healthy harvest.

Below are some photos of “light” from over the years in all seasons. Hard to capture through a photo, however the idea comes across. We hope you all enjoy the longest day!

Next time you enjoy the bike path by railroad street out towards Whitefield, you will notice the fields we lease. WE call and refer to these fields as the Oxbow. The 4 acres are home to new potatoes, more greens, carrots, beets, soon winter squash and pumpkins, and garlic. We spent time there this week harvesting garlic scapes (the garlic flower) which are excellent in soups, salads, and make a great pesto. Garlic scapes will be an option this week!

Below, Jav, Jess, and Evrald weeding some beets at the Oxbow.

Zucchini and Roma Tomatoes are thriving in Garden 7. Take a stroll out there at pickup. Enjoy the self guided tour and say hello to our donkeys and goats. We plant in fabric to help keep the weeds at bay.

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.

Here's what you will find in this weeks share:

Everyone gets to take a bunch of Kale

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, Jeb, Colin, Jaime, Wyatt, Ani, Sophie, and Jess)

Jeb, Cole, and Tim, made quick work re-decking the flatbed trailer. It is ready to go for another 10 years at least!

Summer CSA Pickup #1

June 13, 2025

welcome to the Summer CSA! Whether you're continuing with us from previous CSA seasons, 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, welcoming our produce into your kitchen, and supporting local agriculture.

Parsley surrounded by Salanova Head Lettuce in Garden 6. We utilize fabric as a weed barrier.

The 2025 crop plan created in December was set in motion day 1 of 2025 with tomato, basil, parsley, and lettuce seeds dropping into soil blocks in our seed room. This heated space sprang to life and became a lively retreat in the dark and cold of winter. We promptly filled this room, maximizing space to fit as many seedlings as possible before moving plants and turning on a greenhouse space. By March onions made their way into the back of greenhouse (GH) 1 and the radiant heat in GH3 and GH4 had moved the soil temperature up above 60 degrees spurring us to transplant cherry tomatoes and cucumbers into the ground, kicking off the 2025 season. The time and effort nurturing cherry tomatoes in the seed room and then the greenhouse on those cold nights, has paid off with plenty of cherry tomatoes already available.

The MSF team filled all 10 greenhouses with frost sensative tropical plants by mid may: Basil, peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, beans, greens, etc. By the end of May planting in many of our outside gardens and literally this week we are harvesting crops every day to stay ahead. Winter squash and pumpkins will top off the bulk of the transplanting in the ground when they go in next week. All of this has set us up for what we hope to be a successful season with many of the veggies you love. We are thrilled to begin again with the summer CSA. Check below to see your options at pickup.

GH10 cherry tomatoes. We have never planted in pots, however with extra plants unable to fit in GH4, we continued to increase the pot size eventually moving these into unheated GH10. Take a walk around the farm when you come pick up your share to see these first hand.

Evrald was integral in prepping this Greenhouse back in February and then planting in March. 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!

Under 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 Sophie will be present and able to help answer any questions you may have, and

If you signed up for an add-on, there will be a shelf with coffee, eggs, 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. The 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.

On the bottom of the tally sheet you can 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.

CSA: Summer 2025

Greens and Flowers

Below Sam mowed lettuce further up in Garden 5 this week before covering.

PYO flowers have opened up for the season. We are excited to see buds turn to blooms and the variety of beautiful flowers and colors coming up. If you haven’t taken a walk by the s since the PYO peas, go for it, take a walk around and see the changes.

We turned the sugar snap pea beds over to fall Salanova head lettuce and the 2 beds of carrots you enjoyed over by the asparagus are now an oats and peas cover crop.

PickupCome 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.

If you signed up for an add-on, don’t forget to pickup your Coffee, Flowers, Eggs, and Pork sausage.

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!

Here's what you will find in this weeks share:

Everyone gets to take 1 bunch of Kale

Full shares receive an additional 11 choices and

Small shares receive an additional 7 choices.

Please use the tally sheets to keep track of the number of choices you are taking at pickup. We want to make sure you receive all 8 choices if you are a small share and 12 choices if you are a large share!

Your Farmer, Sam (For Tim, Mikaela, Jeannie, Jim, Evrald, Shawn, Jav, Jeb, Colin, Jaime, Wyatt, Ani, Sophie, and Jess)

Animals

The three donkeys, Milton (dad), Summer (mom), and Buckwheat (son), are all in their 20’s and enjoy their time on the farm, sunning, sharing space with our 5 goats, and saying hello to visitors when they aren’t feeling so shy.

Garlic

Garlic going in the ground October 20, 2024 for a July 2025 harvest.

What a week

General maintaining and harvesting have been on the docket most days right now, however we did take a team field trip over to the Oxbow to see the progress.

PickupCome 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.

If you signed up for an add-on, don’t forget to pickup your Flowers, Eggs, and Pork sausage.

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!

Here's what you will find in this weeks share:

Full shares receive an 12 choices and

Small shares receive 8 choices.

Please use the tally sheets to keep track of the number of choices you are taking at pickup. We want to make sure you receive all 8 choices if you are a small share and 12 choices if you are a large share!

Your Farmer, Sam (For Tim, Mikaela, Jeannie, Jim, Evrald, Shawn, Jav, Jeb, Colin, Jaime, Wyatt, Ani, Sophie, and Jess)

Fruits of our Labor

Jess, Mikaela, and Addison spent a busy Thursday packing up greens, for the farm stand, Littleton Food Coop, and CSA.

Addison, has been keeping a watchful eye on all that happens at the farm making sure the washroom is running smoothly! We appreciate her smiles and presence.

Shawn has been the primary carrot harvester, pulling these beauties out of Garden 1 by the Asparagus patch. We will have carrots back in the CSA hopefully this week.

Jeb, Colin, Shawn, and Jaime all working hard washing and packaging veggies for the CSA and wholesale accounts.

Evrald needed the ladder to prune and trellis GH4 cherry tomatoes. We are harvesting sometimes up to 130 pints in a single day as we also have cherry tomatoes of different ages in 3 other greenhouses as well.

Blueberries

This week Jav embarked on the task of weed wacking the blueberries. Jim meticulously mows them (and the rest of the farm) throughout the spring and summer, however we wait to clear closely around the bushes for PYO until the ripening begins.

Tim filling pints with the sweet blueberry crop back in 2016.

Flowers

The bountiful, beautiful, bright, fragrant colors of the flower gardens are beginning to emerge bringing bouquets and specifically the PYO Flower Add-on of the CSA.

For more information on our flowers, check out the tour sign out by the PYO flower garden! You can also check out the video on our flowers below.

PickupCome 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.

If you signed up for an add-on, don’t forget to pickup your Coffee, Eggs, and Pork sausage.

The PYO and Bouquet flower CSA also starts up this week, so blooms are in your future!

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!

Here's what you will find in this weeks share:

Everyone gets to take: Curly or Lacinato Kale

PLEASE REMEMBER:

Full shares receive an additional 11 choices and

Small shares receive an additional 7 choices.

Please use the tally sheets to keep track of the number of choices you are taking at pickup. We want to make sure you receive all 8 choices if you are a small share and 12 choices if you are a large share!

Your Farmer, Sam (For Tim, Mikaela, Jeannie, Jim, Evrald, Shawn, Jav, Jeb, Colin, Jaime, Wyatt, Ani, Sophie, and Jess)

How’s it going?

We hope you have enjoyed welcoming Meadowstone Farm into your kitchen during the first 3 weeks of the CSA. Thank you for all the feedback, questions and thoughts provided to us so far, keep it coming!

Are there things you would like to change about your 2025 Summer CSA share? If so, let us know by email or phone before your next pickup!

Options include switching share size from Small to Full or Full to Small or changing add-ons. Coffee, Flowers, and Pork Sausage are all available options. We can only offer refunds for Eggs as there are no more Egg Add-ons available for purchase.

If your CSA changes require a partial refund, the amount will be added to your Farm Bucks account in our farm-stand to be used at your convenience on any item we sell in the stand. Don't have an account? We will set one up for you!

If you owe us, bring a check on your pickup day, Monday or Thursday.

To change something about your CSA just shoot us an email with the subject "CSA Changes" and then touch base with Jaime or Sophie on Monday or Thursday.

Due to the administrative work and CSA organization, this is the week of the CSA season to make a change if you would like to make one.

—-No need to reach out to us unless you are interested in changing a part of your CSA.—-

After Shawn mowed the cover crop in G1 at the Oxbow (above), Tim used a seeding tractor implement to drill cover crop seed directly into the mowed cover crop (below). Multiple rounds of cover crop in the same location nurtures and regenerates soil and increases organic matter.

While at the Oxbow on Thursday Tim took the video below of Garden 3. Future garden beds, followed by garlic, potatoes, then beets and carrots and a few more future beds.

(Below)Evrald, Jav, and Tim have all been using the large flame weeder at the oxbow to clean up beds before germinated beet and carrot seeds poke through the soil.

Saying goodbye to GH3 early cucumbers

Above: GH2 transformation from seedlings to more cherry tomatoes and basil.

Right: GH2 seedling sale plants.

Pickup

If you are unable to pickup, please let us know so we can put your share aside to be picked up at your earliest convenience.

PLEASE REMEMBER TO BRING BAGS!

Woodland Community School Camp children and parents may be still in and around the driveway, please be careful navigating the parking lot.

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.

Here's what you will find in this weeks share:

Everyone gets to take: White Sweet Onions

PLEASE REMEMBER:

Full shares receive an additional 11 choices and

Small shares receive an additional 7 choices.

Please use the tally sheets to keep track of the number of choices you are taking at pickup. We want to make sure you receive all 8 choices if you are a small share and 12 choices if you are a large share!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.