Hello Good People!
Spring is here! Tho it is also currently snowing and the fresh-worked fields are white with it. The low temperature, four nights ago found on many thermometers here, was nine to twelve degrees.
Nevertheless, Spring is here!
Celery starts (pictured above)
Lettuce starts (pictured below)
Onions planted from seed. (below) Transplanting these to outdoors is akin to planting blades of grass
We believe there will be halfshares the first week of May and fullshares first week of June. Transplants were started into fields this week, tho this weather right now is not conducive to young plant life and we’ll see how it goes. Starting transplants in heated hoophouses has been energy and time consuming beyond usual this year due to the extended low temperatures. The wood-fired houses must be stoked every couple hours on single digit nights, usually someone sleeps in the hoophouses with an alarm clock to ensure it is done. Forks, knots, and other wood that is unsuitable for more gainful use is burned in the wood stoves. Some stoves, like one containing a boiler jacket around the firebox for a thermal flow water-heated house, are quite large!
The first April box should contain fresh kale and fresh sprouts and fresh egg noodles, as well as a various combination of storage items. The second box of April will be similar, tho probably with a head of lettuce or other green. Month of May box contents will prolly be similar to previous years, look in “What’s in the Box” for pictures of them. May and June boxes can be “greens” heavy, tho we think it won’t be excessive.
Possibilities are you’ll see a red tomato in early June and sweet corn early July, if not sooner. Strawberries by June and they will be in the boxes as soon as they ripen. You can also order thru the online store, by the case (8 quarts) reasonably priced, for you to jar or freeze or just plain eat and enjoy!! Mushrooms should appear in the online store by late April.
To purchase add-ons from the online store click on “store” in the top right of your account after logging in.
Similiar to the Winter in many ways was our switch to online order/pay. It was long and difficult. And it is over 🙂 Thank you for your patronage! And to sooo many of you, your above and beyond attitudes of trust and encouragement meant sooo much!! A few snarls may still be encountered (sorry about the recent auto-send of account closed emails!)
Thank You
eat fresh eat local eat well
~Adam
