Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Hello from a very windy Dancing Hen Farm!

Yes, the buying club is open this week!  Ordering has already begun and deliveries will be Friday evening to Bloomsburg and Saturday morning to Dallas and Forty Fort.  On farm orders are available anytime  after 4 pm Friday or all day Saturday.  We are featuring protein this week, free range eggs, pastured chicken, apple orchard pork and Stillwater Fields beef.  Our stew hens are once again on special this week.  The heat of the last couple of weeks has not treated our early spring greens well, most have gone to seed.  This means greens will be off the buying club list for a few weeks.

It is hard to believe after these summer like temperatures, but, we are once again prepping for a possible cold evening.  We do not expect frost, but we have too much planted to risk it.  The lows  tomorrow night are forecast to be it the upper 30's and we will cover most of our crops with row cover blankets to protect them.  Speaking of weather, we really need rain.  I am thinking we will get some this coming weekend, but we need a couple of days of a good soaking rain.  Our soil is dry and we are already running our irrigation.  Unless the weather pattern changes, I think this year we may be very thankful for irrigation.

On farm we are still in planting mode.  Trying to get lots and lots seeded and planted as our season start rapidly approaches.  This afternoon Farmers Don and Matt were forced to open our second nursery to house seedlings, not unusual for this time of year, but always exciting to see so many seedlings started.  Our large unheated greenhouse/ high tunnel is slowly getting planted with summer crops.  We already have some tomatoes and cucumbers growing in this tunnel.  In the next few weeks it will fill with tomatoes.  Our first planting of arugula and turnip greens look great in the field, as does our first planting of Asian greens, kale and chard.  Peas are up and slowly growing and our early planting of summer squash is starting to leaf out.

On May 31, we will be hosting an open house on farm from 1 to 3.  All are welcome!  Farmer Don will be conducting a farm tour starting at 1:30.  We should will also have transplants for sale.  So come on by, see the farm, "shake the hand that feeds you", meet other friends of the farm and pick up some transplants for your home garden.

Have a great week!  And thanks once again to each of you your continued support of local foods.

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