We’ll have choices from the following veggies this week for CSA:
lettuce, spinach, chard, kale, broccoli, broccolini, cabbage, cucumber, zucchini, tomato, beans, carrots, beets, onion, dill, cilantro, basil, parsley, green onion
On the farm this week:
I got a picture of the easter Bunny this week! I know he’s the easter bunny because he was born right around easter and keeps leaving little easter eggs: at least they look like chocolate eggs, but taste more like grass and clover. He’s in the broccoli every time we harvest and we’ve watched him grow the last couple months. I don’t think he’s ever left the broccoli and is probably thinking that’s all there is to life. There have always been lots of jack rabbits on the farm, but they’ve never eaten any of the crop that I know of. I’ve seeded a grass and clover in between the broccoli rows to feed the soil microbes, so I’m guessing that’s what he’s eating.
Another animal we have lots of our frogs – and this year I’m seeing some of the biggest frogs I’ve seen on the farm. I don’t know if it’s coincidental, but I’m also seeing a lot less cabbage moths than usual this time of year; and it just so happens that these frogs eat moths! Usually by now we would have the kale and broccoli covered with insect netting otherwise the kale would be full of holes and the broccoli would be full of worms, but I have not covered either yet. Although, if anyone has found worms in the broccoli, please let me know because it might be time to cover them.
Along with trying to keep our pathways on the farm seeded to grass and clover I’ve also been trying to seed more flowers throughout the farm for pollinators and was happy to see this bee checking out one of our sunflowers.
And finally, Barb is becoming a farmer. Everyone who picks up in Wolseley no doubt knows Alyssa’s mom Barb. Well we’ve been running behind and needed to get our garlic harvested, so instead of going to the cabin on Friday, Barb came out to harvest garlic for 10 hours straight. Our garlic is now curing and we don’t offer it in the CSA, but have it available for bulk orders in September.
That’s it for this week. See you soon!
Jonathan, Sarah, Sandra, Alyssa, Morgan, Shola, Emerson and Barb.