Week 2

Thank you to all of our members for the excellent start to the season last week.  Your enthusiasm and words of encouragement have such a profound effect on farmer morale!  Jon “Black Cloud” Berube was even rumored to have remarked that “maybe it was a good morning” and “perhaps today we shouldn’t consider mowing in all the crops.”  I’ve never seen him so optimistic!  Below Ryan Donnelly proudly displays the days harvest.

Tender, fresh from the field, packed with wholesome goodness and absolutely beautiful!  Also pictured are some of our veggies. 

And why not risk a little optimism?  The veggies are starting to respond to warmer temperatures and longer days.  We are between pestilences at the moment having weathered the early spring plagues of onion and cabbage maggots and not yet entered the early summer scourges of Colorado Potato Beetle larvae and Cucumber beetles.  The weeds are about as close to under control as they are likely to get and I have enough greens in my fridge to eat salad 3 meals a day for weeks.  It doesn’t get much better.

Early mornings on the farm.

Saturday June 28th we will be hosting our annual Blue Grass Picnic.  Old Cold Tater will be performing again this year so mark your calendar now!  We hope to see you all there. 

 A special thank you to those volunteers who joined me Saturday morning in the carrot patch for a little lesson in edible plant identification and a lot of very productive weeding.  We’ve still got long way to go but your help and good company has already made the job seem more manageable.  If you missed last Saturday’s Weed and Feed session please don’t be shy about joining us next Saturday between 9am and noon.

What’s in the share: Lettuce, Salanova Salad mix, Kale, Greens, Bok Choy, PYO herbs

New this week: Bridger Onions (uncured), Scallions, Kohlrabi, PYO Strawberries