Greetings from Dancing Hen Farm!
It is finally time. CSA deliveries start next week. That means ordering starts this week! Ordering for Week 1 will begin Thursday, June 12 at 6 pm and will end Sunday, June 15 at 6 pm. You will need to log into our website using your email and password you registered with, in order to make your selections. If you are having difficulty, please contact the farm. All items are available first come first serve! Happy picking!
Please note all OFF FARM CSA deliveries are on TUESDAY. We guarantee your box will be at our drop-site after 4 pm. All ON FARM CSA pick-ups will be on Thursday, with boxes available after 4 pm. Please watch for an additional email with the details of your pick up site. Our website is being updated and may not reflect these delivery days, sorry for the confusion.
There will be NO buying club this week! We will be busy getting ready for Week 1 CSA and Forks Farm Market. Please consider visiting us at Forks Farm Market on Saturday.
On farm we are happy to finally see some warm temperatures. Our fields are filling up with plants. We have most of our tomatoes planted and we continue with rotations of greens and beans. Our first planting of summer squash and cucumbers are sizing up nicely. We are growing a new Asian green this year, vitamin green. Vitamin green is a tender, rather sweet green similar to bok choy and tatsoi. Try it raw in salads or sauteed with garlic and olive oil.
We are once again battling the resident groundhogs! Those of you who have been with us for a few years know this has been an ongoing issue. Our dogs seem to have driven them away from our lower fields, but our upper fields are now serving as a groundhog buffet. Unfortunately lots of our spring broccoli, kale and cabbage are planted in these fields and groundhogs love these brassicas. Looks like we will be walking the dogs up there more often!
This Saturday we will be at Forks Farm Market (www.forksfarmmarket) from 10 am to 2 pm. This is a really great market on the Hopkins family farm. This market is well known for its variety of vendors and products available, well worth the drive. We will be there with a variety of greens and transplants. If you come to market, please stop by our table, say hello and see what we are harvesting!
We do still have a few CSA memberships available. Please contact the farm, so we can arrange for your first delivery! If you have signed up on our website and we have not received payment or you have not contacted us concerning payment, you will not be able to sign onto our website to order and you will not receive a box for week 1.
There are a multitude of reason we do what we do, but most important to us is to be able to share our harvest of nutrient dense vegetables with our community. Thanks to each of you for your support of our farm and local agriculture!
Farmer Don and Joan
Dancing Hen Farm
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