Greetings from Dancing Hen Farm!
Week 6 ordering is now open and will close Sunday at 6
pm. Week 6 is not an egg week. We hope everyone is enjoying their Week 5
box.
Sitting on the back porch enjoying a beautiful evening! We have a wren family in our bird bottle and
Jenny Wren is not happy with the dogs, cat and I hanging out near her
babies. With each trip to and from the
bottle, she stops and scolds us extensively!
Growing up, we always had wrens nesting in a bird box close to our back
porch, as I am so fondly remembering tonight.
After a hot start to the week and some nasty storms on Tuesday,
the past few days have been beautiful. Clear
blue skies, low humidity and cool nights for good sleeping. Our low was 51 on farm this morning! I stand corrected, Farmer Don just told me it
was 46 up in the field this morning! It does
seem the hot and muggies may be back for the beginning of next week; I am sure
just in time for Monday's harvest. This
year, I think our harvest days (Mondays) have been some of the hottest ever. And the gnats are back in full force as
well!
On farm, this is still a transition week for us. So hang in there, lots of good things coming
your way! Cucumbers and squash continue
to produce well. Snap beans are so
close, but just not quite ready for picking.
I anticipate a few more weeks, at least and then we will have beans
available. We have planting of green,
yellow, dragon and purple beans. We also
have a small planting of flat Italian style green beans, but those are just
starting to grow, so they will be a while yet.
We have lots of tomatoes on the vine, but we will need a few more weeks
of heat and sun to ripen them. Our sungolds
and some cherry tomatoes are slowly ripening and again, we anticipate lots of
these available in the near future.
Cooking and salad greens are in the ground and these cooler days and
nights, combined with Tuesday's rain should have them growing nicely. This also true for our second round of Asian
greens.
Speaking of starting to produce. Our new flock of laying hens have started to
lay! The first few weeks of eggs are
quite small (pullet eggs), but soon those eggs will be in the rotation and we
can again offer eggs as a choice item or on our buying club.
It seems I have been talking a lot about what will be
happening "soon" in this newsletter, so let's talk a bit about the
past. Today is Farmer Don's and my
wedding anniversary! Yes, we were
married in July, one of our busiest times on farm! Of course, many moons ago, when we promised
our love to each other, we were not farming.
Don was climbing the corporate ladder of the restaurant business and I
was in graduate school destined, or so I thought, to become a Doctor of
Entomology (bugs!). Now our lives are
much simpler and the only climbing Farmer Don does is up the side of the greenhouse
when he needs to make a repair to the plastic!
I still have a strange fondness for bugs, but never did become "Dr
Miller".
So, the night is moving on and Farmer Don just about has our
anniversary dinner ready. We will again
be dining on most all Dancing Hen Farm produced food. I would say not a bad way to spend our
anniversary!
Thanks again to everyone for your continued support. Have a great week and enjoy those veggies.
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