Lettuce Begin
Welcome to our 21st year delivering fresh veggies from the farm to our CSA members.
The crew is back – Dory, Michael, Lisa and we have a new employee Tiffany
Thank you for supporting our farm. It is only through the continued support of our members that our farm continues to be sustainable and we continue the practice of farming. We like to grow many interesting veggies, some of which you may have never tried before. We encourage you to try-it, you’ll like it!! We always provide you with recipes and have our Harvest Identifier online as well. The CSA deliveries are seasonal, so during the spring the deliveries will consist mostly of greens with perhaps 5-7 different items. As the season progresses, more variety will be included and the deliveries will become heavier. Weekly news and recipes will be included on the blog with links within the newsletter sent out to everyone. If you have some recipes to share, please feel free to forward them so that others may try them! It is our pleasure to welcome back many of you who have been supporting the farm for many of our 20 years and welcome many new members this year.
Community supported farm members soon become connected to each other as the weeks go by. We welcome you all and look forward to working will all of you. We encourage you to speak about the CSA to friends, family, coworkers, etc as we are seeing a decrease in membership over the years at the same time that the deliveries are greatly improved over years past. We know there are other options, such as farmers’ markets and direct delivery and this impacting the CSA movement. In speaking with other farmers, the same is happening at their CSAs as well. We understand that things change but knowing exactly where your food is coming from we feel is so important. We can prorate the share price for any new members.
News from the Fields & Farm: Each spring seems to always bring a challenge for planning the planting schedules. The fields are actually in very good shape this year and we have a lot more lettuce than usual at this time of year. The broccoli and cauliflower are looking good. The peas (snow peas in tonight’s delivery and snap peas next week) are probably the best we have every had. The plants have lots of blossoms so they should be producing the peas over the next week or so. A hot spell will shut down the plants.
The zucchini will probably be early this year and we have planted plenty of winter squash. The cucumbers aren’t developing well right now and we will replant during the week.
We a great selection of herbs and tonight includes an early delivery of basil!
The onion crop is growing well, both red & white.
Our garlic crop seems ahead as we need to start harvesting the garlic scapes next week instead of in July.
The tomatoes in tonight’s delivery are greenhouse tomatoes so we can have them in the early deliveries. They aren’t like our heirlooms but do make a nice addition to the start of the season.
Franklin Greenhouse Report: The early lettuces are form the Franklin Greenhouse as well as the Texas Supper Sweet Onions. These beds will be replaced by Oriental greens & eggplant. We really like the eggplant growing in the greenhouse instead of being field planted as we have more control. The greenhouse has also been planted with over 250 pepper plants (mostly sweet peppers with a few hots). The pepper plants will be a stunning variety of color from white, yellow, red, purple, orange and maybe a green one now and then! These will surely make some nice dishes when they are ready to harvest.
Weather report: We have been receiving just enough rain over the last several weeks, which is a good thing. Our irrigation system is not quite up and running. We anticipate the system being ready by the weekend.
What’s Up & Growing: Here is an overview of what is up & growing on the Farm: (# of varieties in ( )
| Beans (2 varieties) Beets | Eggplant (4) | Onions (4) |
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