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It’s time to Sign Up! Early Bird Discount Ends on April 1st!
Mud Season is Sign Up Season!
The farm feels a little like a waking dragon. It was curled up in its cave all winter slumbering and snoring, but it is now stretching its legs and yawning with it’s huge jaws. Soon the dragon will be out flying over head when the sun comes out flapping it’s wings and breathing fire. I’m doing what I can to preserve the peace and calmness while it lasts-shhhhing him back to sleep.
But the only constant is change. The seasons are changing and it’s Mud Season on the farm now. You know, the season between Winter and Spring? The farmers and the kids track in mud and gravel and bring in sticks and bags of seeds from the greenhouse. The chimney from the greenhouse is puffing smoke (the dragons breath) and as long as it doesn’t get too windy, things work nicely. When you enter the greenhouse doors it smells of wood smoke, soil and moist air. The greenhouse feels warm and cozy inside and everyone wants to be in there, including the farm animals, but we’re doing our best to keep the chickens out at least. They love to take their dust baths in the front room where it’s dry and dusty and search for seeds and bugs and even grass growing on the inside.
Onions are popping everywhere filling up two lengths of tables in the greenhouse. Today we seeded parsley. On Monday we’ll be seeding Swiss Chard, Cabbage, Kohlrabi and Kale. We even seed Lettuce on March 20th which is a sure sign that things are picking up. Lettuce is in the greenhouse for 4-5 weeks and is then transplanted. After transplant it’s only 45 days till harvest-or sooner when grown in the upper greenhouse!
We just bought a new “beater” farm truck for hauling veggies in and out of the fields with. It seems like every 5 or so years we need to buy a new (old) truck to haul the harvest and crews around the farm in. We never buy anything nice because you never know when it’s going to get backed into by someone operating the skid steer (ahem, I have personally done this-but I was 9 months pregnant with Arlo when it happened and my range of motion was compromised) or when it’s going to get a window broken out of it during winter squash harvest when we’re tossing squash in the air (wasn’t me this time!). You don’t want crews of muddy workers climbing into your nice truck on a rainy harvest day either! But the windows do go up and down and it has leather seats and is 3/4 ton for handling the weight of the harvest. She aint purty, but she runs good!
Sign Ups are coming in strong this year. There are are a few other area CSA farms that we know of who have retired from CSA farming, we suspect that we may fill up sooner this year due to this fact. If you’re a returning CSA member, be sure to sign up soon to ensure your membership in the farm this season. We really want to prioritize our returning members and make sure you have first dibs at the membership! This e-mail also serves as a reminder that our Early Bird Discount pricing ends on April 1st! Get the lowest price you can on your CSA share by signing up before April 1st either online or by check.
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