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.

August 2008: Blueberry Patch

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!

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)