welcome to the Summer CSA! Whether you're continuing with us from previous CSA seasons, been a loyal customer for many years, or just joined us, we thank you for being a part of the CSA and supporting local agriculture. 

Happy Summer Solstice!

Next Thursday, June 20, 2024 at 5:02 am the sun will rise.

Sunset will take place at 8:33 pm giving us

15 hours 31 minutes and 10 seconds of daylight.

 Hard to believe on December 21, 2024, the shortest day of the year will only provide us with 

8 hours 51 minutes and 27 seconds of daylight. 

What a huge difference! 

By now most all plants are in, tomatoes are ripening, zucchini is just starting to fruit and the weeds are popping. We are in some ways, at the hurry-up-and-wait stage of the game. After a spring of planting we are maintaining, prepping beds for fall crops, mulching, and getting ready for the harvest.

Garlic Scapes are starting to come in. If left on the plant to mature, they would ultimately form a flower and then seed pod at the top of the plant. We break these off (and enjoy them in pesto, soups, etc) which provides more of the plants energy to the future bulb of garlic, the root.

The cherry tomato plants are so tall, we now break out ladders when we prune and trellis. Incredible to be able to have these available so early in the season.

Evrald prepares to plant roma tomatoes in the garden 7, out past our PYO blueberries. After spreading soil amendments we laid out some fabric mulch with the correct tomato spacing. These tomatoes will provide a yummy fall harvest.

We came together on Tuesday and planted the remaining dahlia tubers over at the Oxbow. Like we did last year, we have some in the ground out front by our PYO flower garden, however with an abundance of stored tubers (we dig them up and store them over the winter in our root cellar) we decided to plant some at the fields we lease for a fall harvest.

Pickup
Come anytime between 3 pm and 6 pm to choose your share on the day you chose when you signed up, so either Monday or Thursday.

Please bring your own bags or box to gather your choices. To find the pickup location look for the CSA sign and tent left and straight ahead after driving into the farm!

Similar to last year we will have a table set up with limited products. Due to the limited quantities of these items we ask members to only choose 1 item from the entire "limited" table. However we are going to work hard to avoid the limited table altogether.

If you signed up for an add-on, there will be a shelf with coffee, eggs, and pork sausage for you to take. The PYO and Bouquet flower CSA starts in late July, when the patch starts blooming in earnest!

 Remember to contact us in advance if you will be unable to pick up on Thursday, so that we can store your share in our walk-in refrigerator to keep it fresh. You can email or call us to let us know. Thank you to all of those who have already arranged another time to pickup!

To keep track of choices taken we will provide you with a Tally Sheet upon arrival to pickup your share. The example below is from last year. You will notice a few things:

Must take items will already be checked off. If you would like to take a second of the must take items, add a second tick mark.

  • On the bottom you can circle your share size as a reminder of how many choices you get to take. The number includes the must take items if there are any.

  • There will be less weeks/items with must take items.

The tally sheet allow us to keep track of what was taken to improve our selection from week to week and year to year for our CSA.

Here's what you will find in this weeks share:

 Everyone gets to take:

Something green (we aren’t exactly sure which green yet)

Full shares receive an additional 11 choices

Small shares receive an additional 7 choices.

Want some recipe ideas?

CHECK OUT THE CSA RECIPE PAGE!

Enjoy! Thank you for supporting local agriculture. See you Thursday if not before.

Your Farmer,

Sam (For Tim, Matt, Mikaela, Jeannie, Jim, Jaime, Evrald, Shawn, Colin, Jessie, Ani, Wyatt, and Claira)