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Back row L-R: Ryan W, Jon and Alex
Front row L-R: Ryan D, Lise, Rachel
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We just finished our first week with our new apprentices Alex, Rachel and Ryan! Look for their bios and photos soon on the staff bio page. In addition to getting oriented to Appleton and our farming systems, they've been busy working both in the greenhouse and out in the field. This week in the greenhouse we seeded flowers, eggplant, tomatoes, basil, bok choy and our third lettuce planting. We also thinned our cabbage seedlings, transplanted snapdragons into larger trays, trimmed the tops of our onion seedlings and moved the leeks out to the cold frames to harden off before transplanting next week. Out in the field we raked the rest of the straw mulch off of our strawberries, prepped fields for planting leeks, spinach, lettuce, and potatoes next week, and we seeded chard, a second planting of carrots and beets and almost 2 acres of field peas for spring cover crop. We tried to cover as much of the freshly seeded crops as possible with row cover as well this week, but we eventually ran out of material! Listing off everything that we accomplished makes us sound very busy, but in comparison to a typical week in June (when we work 6am -5pm), this week was leisurely. Right now we're enjoying being busy, but not
too busy.
We are just about done filling in shares off the waitlist for the 2013 season. If you have friends who have been looking to join a CSA in the area and don't have a share for this season, tell them to check out Moraine Farm. Moraine is located in Beverly and is also operated by The Trustees of Reservations. Visit the
Moraine Farm blog for more information!
