Bobby World
and Greens
What a week it has been between all the harvesting, cultivating, and ensuring our fall crops are coming along nicely. The winter squash is sizing up, cabbage coming along, onions are beginning to fall over (which means they are ready to harvest), and fall greens and herbs are going into the ground.
Our goat logo is a profile of a picture taken of the original Buck, Bobby. If you check out our farmbucks page you will be able to see that photo. Bobby had some serious personality and made an impact on the farm. We have named the area where he hung out after him: Bobby World.
We moved our Donkeys: Milton, Summer, and Buckwheat (Dad, Mom, and son), our cow Kona, and 4 goats out there to have a little more space to roam and enjoy. They miss all their farmstand visitors, however are excited to see all the blueberry harvesters.
It took some talking into and encouragement, however they all eventually made it out there!
Greens are sort of coming back into it after the wet weather and horrible germination. We have a few successions at the oxbow as well as here at the main farm. At times we use a knife to harvest, handful by handful, however we also utilize a greens cutter. Sam can be seen below using it (in the rain) to harvest some High Mowing Ironman Baby Kale. It uses a battery powered drill which moves a very sharp blade back and forth while spinning some green cord to catch the cut greens and put them into a basket. One person can harvest up to 100 pounds of greens in about an hour using this tool. To ensure only kale, we weeded these greens before harvest. Once at the farm, we triple wash, spin dry and bag!
The brassicas are thriving at the oxbow, Evrald enjoyed an early morning Broccolini 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.
If you signed up for an add-on, don’t forget to pickup your
Coffee, Eggs, Pork sausage and Flowers!
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!
Here's what you will find in this weeks share:
We will have an item for you to take and then:
Full shares receive an additional 11 choices
Small shares receive an additional 7 choices.
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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)