We really enjoyed meeting those of you who came out for our farm tour on Saturday—it was a great group of folks with interesting questions (and engaged clever children)! In spite of the uninspiring weather, we enjoyed giving you a taste of how and where we grow your vegetables. It’s good for us to step out of our routines to reflect on what we do here and meet the people who keep us going. So thanks for coming out! Stay tuned for strawberry u-picks during the summer.
It was an eventful week. We had a grass fire in our apple orchard that burned about ½ acre on Friday. The trees themselves did not go up in flames, just the dry mowed grass between the rows, but the fire was hot enough to wither the leaves on the trees in its path. In consulting with other orchardists, the trees will probably recover, though they’ll obviously be set back. It was an exhausting end to a busy week, but the truth is it could have been worse, so we’re looking on the bright side.
During the next few weeks we have a lot of new crops coming in – carrots (chantenay and purple), new potatoes, assorted summer squashes, cauliflower of all colors, cabbages, fennel, red and chioggia beets, blueberries and strawberries, plus more lettuces, greens, herbs, and favas. We’re finishing up the blueberry bird netting just in time as the blueberry bushes are loaded with fruit.
Note to those of you getting every-other-week delivery: this is a great time to switch to every week. At this point in the year we start to have greater variety and change what we put in from week to week. Also, since we are geared toward providing vegetables on an every week basis, we often will alternate weeks for certain items—for instance, one week we might give Wednesday folks new potatoes and strawberries while Thursday gets summer squash and blueberries. The next week we might flip it around so Wednesday gets summer squash and blueberries and Thursday gets new potatoes and strawberries. This helps even out our harvest, as items like summer squash need to be picked every week (even 2-3 times per week), but we don’t want you swimming in zucchini, so we don’t want to give it to everyone every week. We realize that those who are getting every-other-week deliveries may find themselves getting the same items each time. We have a lot more every other week subscribers this year because we put it as an option on the on-line sign up, but we still plan our boxes based on the every week subscriber and feel that you’ll get the best CSA experience on the weekly schedule. Please contact Sarah if you’d like to change your delivery frequency.
And a final note–our spring planting has gone really well this year and we are entering the season of great veggie abundance! At this time of year it is easy for us to take on more subscribers, so please tell your friends about us. If they mention you when they sign up, we’ll credit you with $10 to spend in our webstore (for when we have berries, tomatoes, honey or other items for special order.) Send your friends this link to join: http://csa.farmigo.com/join/highgroundorganics/csa and tell them to mention your name in the sign-up comments section.
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