Sunrise Harvest
We are again up with the sunrise filling this week’s first shares!
We are harvesting Broccoli sprouts, Butterhead lettuces, Redhead lettuces, Spinach, Broadleaf Kale bunches, Parsley, Rosemary and at long last, Carrots!
It ain’t easy waiting for carrots to develop roots like what we are all used to. The crop has always tested our patience, or highlighted our impatience. Carrots are hard to sprout but easy to grow. You only get one shot to pull them and the hardest thing is waiting for the right time without being disappointed. This week’s carrots won’t be babies, they won’t be monsters, but they’ll be nice. In addition to standard traditional orange carrots, we have red varieties, yellow varieties, and purple roots. We hope to give our shareholders an eye-catching, delicious bunch this week, while leaving a thick stand leftover to continue to grow and give us more root harvests in the following weeks before summer.
Unfortunately, we have to limit our egg allowance this week and can only provide each family with a half dozen. Our butt nugget production numbers didn’t quite add up but we’re taking steps to diagnose why and fix it. Some of our existing young hens are just starting to lay and we’ll be bringing new adult hens to the farm this week. Hopefully, we won’t run into this problem often this season. We appreciate your patience and understanding.
Thanks also to our Wednesday folks who came out to our very first Farmer’s Market. The weather wasn’t great, but we were able to sell some of our surplus. It was more fun and rewarding than we had even anticipated. We’re introverts and don’t see ourselves as salespeople, but it seems the vegetables sold themselves.
Our tomatoes and peppers are moving along. We have 4 inch long sweet green peppers showing off out there and green cherry tomatoes getting ready to plump up and get red or golden ripe. We’ve planted cucumbers in our hoop house, more cucurbits including squashes and melons, bean varieties, and some cultivated flowers like snapdragons, zinnias, and various sunflowers.
Our golden honey snap pea pods are filling up with tasty peas ready for us all to crack into. Potatoes are flowering- an exciting indication that spuds are forming and fattening beneath the surface. Sweet corn is getting close to a foot tall and we ought to be well beyond knee high by the Fourth of July.
We truly appreciate everyone’s kind words of encouragement and creative application of our harvests.
The generous feedback is so important and meaningful to us. Thanks to everyone who shared their meal ideas with us on social media and through text message.
Enjoy!
Erin & David