Summer returns! Hopefully the rain doesn’t dominate the long weekend and we can squeeze some more sunshine out of summer. The thing I am most excited about this week is honey crisp apples- just for the whole shares for now. They should sweeten up more once we...
Know your farmer: encouraging your kids to eat well and also seeing the value in the food you purchase are both bound to happen in the process. First of all, vegetables are fascinating! There is always something growing in our front field and if you come during store...
The strange forecast continues…hopefully it’s warm enough for swimming as many of you are on vacation this week. I find myself praying for a heat wave- something that seems a little crazy. Without the heat and sun, the crops crawl along and grow very...
So much for the simple life! There seems to be such a breadth of knowledge to attain on how vegetables grow, and I am ever a student. Like this week, I came to the unpleasant realization that we had very few tomatoes. Since we had quite a few last week, I thought...
Sweet relief! The storms that have been passing through have been kind enough to lend us some more comfortable working weather. The expression “make hay while the sun shines” is appropriate, as we make the most of the time picking in the fields when it is not raining...
Happy siesta day! I hope you have been finding places to cool off from the heat. Yesterday the whole farm crew (except for the farm share packers who work partly indoors) took a four hour siesta to beat the heat in the most intensely hot part of the day.I remember in...
