Happy Summer!

It's summer already! It seems to have come too soon, and also to have taken too long to get here.
We got quite a bit of rain for one week, and the next week sun shone down hard and baked the upper crust of the gardens. Th tomatoes have all been planted, and most of them have been tied up. We have started picking strawberries! We should have zucchini soon; little fruits have started to develop on the plants.

Berry

On Thursday morning we moved the cows to the other side of the farm, then on Friday night we noticed a small calf that had been left behind. She had been born in the pasture, then her mother died; by the time she us --humans-- she was quite wild. This morning we finally managed to catch her! We waited for her to lay down, then I slowly crept up behind the little orphan, continuously humming either "Moon River" or "Dream a Little Dream Of Me"(I don't know why I did that, but she seemed to enjoy it and she didn't run away). Eventually I managed to grab her; thank gosh she was small and thin from lack of food. Then I did a little T-Touch in her on our ride in the back of a truck to the cow barn. She became a lot more friendly once we gave her a bottle of milk. She will be quite a pet in a few days :)
We have decided to call her Berry, in honor of her late Mother, Raspberry.

Vegetable List (subject to change):
Lettuce
Spring Turnips
Kale
Swiss Chard
Leeks
Onions
Broccoli
Strawberries

The friendly cow all red and white,
I love her with all my heart:
She gives me cream with all her might,
To eat with apple tart.
She wanders lowing here and there,
And yet she cannot stray,
All in the pleasant open air,
the pleasant light of day;
And blown by all winds that pass
And wet with all the showers,
She walks among the meadow grass
And eats the meadow flowers.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

CSA, week 1

Wow, it's CSA time already!

A majority of the tomatoes have been planted, and now we just have to tie them up.
The market started a couple of weeks ago, and so far is going well.

CSA Vegetable List (subject to change):
Spinach
Lettuce
Kale
Swiss Chard
Green Onions
Spring turnips
Radish
Spring Garlic
Sage
Peppermint
Cilantro
Bok Choy

O come sweet June, my lovely June
The month when first the roses bloom-
A wondrous, colorful display
By sunlight kissed throughout the day,
So chasing all my cares away.

-Valerie Dohren