Welcome to Week 3!
And a Happy Independence Day!
The heat is on! Can
someone remind me, why we were so impatient for warm temperatures in March? We always seem to be talking about the
weather here, but so much of what we do revolves around the weather. And what about our recent string of beautiful
weekends? Looks like that trend will
continue this weekend with humidity and temperatures forecast to fall, starting
Friday. Here on farm we could use a good
soaking rain. Thankfully our new well
and irrigation system still allows us to keep crops watered.
A testament to how cool our spring was are our peas. We are in the real height of our pea harvest
and here it is July 4th. Peas are
generally considered a spring crop, with harvest ending closer to the middle of
June. We anticipate lots of snow and
snap peas for next week's choice, so get your recipes ready. Once again we will have a limited number of
shelling peas available. The shelling
pea pods are a bit small this year, with fewer peas per pod, but the peas are
really sweet.
For week 4, look for the following on the choice. We will be harvesting our first green snap
beans. Generally our early harvests of a
crop are small, but don't worry we have plenty of beans planted. Watch for them to remain on choice for
several weeks. Cucumbers will also be
back on choice and again should remain there for several weeks. We are continuing to harvest both zucchini
and yellow squash. For all of our salad
fans out there, we will also be offering a limited amount of salad mix. We have had germination and pest pressure
problems with our lettuce this year, so bear with us as we nurse our crop to a
harvestable size!
News on the farm. We
received honey bees from a CSA member last weekend. We are excited to have these pollinators on
farm. We are still busy planting. This past week we were able to get all of our
winter squash planted. Now we are hoping
the row cover we have in place will keep out the beetles! Speaking of pests, we are continuing to
battle groundhogs and deer in our upper fields.
We estimate we lost over 2,000 broccoli plants and just as many cabbage
plants to these pests! We still have our
fingers crossed for a small early broccoli harvest. We will replant both of these crops soon in a
lower bed in hopes of a fall harvest. We
have a beautiful second rotation of Asian greens ready to be planted out. Beets and carrots are sizing up nicely. Watch for tomatillos to go out starting Week
5.
We had several volunteers on farm last week. CSA member Amanda spent the day with us
working alongside our field crew. Thank
you Amanda. CSA member Jason, is a
regular volunteer around here. This week
he brought a friend and they helped us with a tractor tire in need of
repair. Thank you Jason and Joe!
A quick note on buying club.
If you have pre-paid for a buying club membership, some extra items are beginning
to show up on the buying club list. These
items will be delivered with your CSA box (please make sure you don't have 2
boxes at your CSA site!). We have
chicken available at this time as well. As
we are still working out the logistics of delivery of this perishable item,
chickens are currently only available for on farm pick up. If you would like to order chicken, please
contact the farm. You can still register
for the buying club. Once we receive
your $50 membership, we will activate you and you can begin to order extra
items. As you order, the amount is
deducted from your account.
Questions? Contact us at the
farm.
We do have a very limited number of shares still available
for the 2014 season. If you know anyone
who might be interested, please have them contact us at the farm.
You can find us on the web!
Look for us on facebook and pinterest (http://www.pinterest.com/dancinghencsa/)
or visit our blog (http://www.dancinghenfarmcsa.blogspot.com/).
Thanks to everyone for returning share boxes! Boxes are a large expenditure for the farm
and we try to re-use them as much as possible.
We also re-use and need egg cartons on farm.
Have a great holiday weekend!
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