CSA, Week 7

The gardens are happy that we received some rain yesterday! Hopefully, rain every Tuesday will become a weekly ritual!
The tomatoes are really starting to produce (tomato and cream cheese on toast; yum!); which is very exciting. Almost all of our bean plants are coming in to full production mode at once. The peppers in the greenhouse look great. Hopefully we will have some in a couple weeks.

Vegetable list (subject to change):
Potatoes (CSA only)
Carrots
Beans
Zucchini
Beets
Dill
Peppermint
Parsley
Kale
Swiss chard
Mesclun mix
Tomatoes (CSA Only)
Onions
Broccoli
Cauliflower
Early cabbage

CSA, Week 6

Another busy week on the farm. Our evenings (and sometimes mornings) were filled with watering; though we finally got some rain yesterday, along with a thunderstorm this morning.
The weeds have been growing like crazy; we need to have a weeding party! Anybody interested?
The beans have all started to come on, and we have been picking and eating the first ripe tomatoes!

Vegetable list (subject to change):
Carrots
Beans, green
Beans, yellow
Beets
Zucchini
Mesclun mix
Lettuce
Kale
Swiss chard
Bok choy
Cilantro
Dill
Parsley
Peppermint
Currants

CSA, week 5

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Today I picked our first beans! They are so juicy and fresh. The cherries and currants have started ripening. Our little strawberry patch shall soon be retired for the season.
It has been dry and sunny... so watering every evening begins again.

The pigs have been dining on salad greens every morning for breakfast.

CSA 10 week shares began this week.

Vegetable list (subject to change):
Mesclun mix
Lettuce
Beets
Carrots
Beans
Garlic scapes
Peas
Kale
Swiss chard
Early cabbage
Green onions
Cilantro
Dill
Parsley
Peppermint
Purslane
Broccoli (CSA shareholders only)
Zucchini (CSA shareholders only -limited amount)

We just made some hay today.

  

CSA, Week 4

It was another busy week at the farm; all the root vegetables have been seeded (carrots, turnips, and beets), the one-hundred-plus tomato plants have been tied up, we've picked about five flats of strawberries out of our little patch, the peppers in the greenhouse have been tied up, and after all that rain there is A LOT of weeding to be done!

The market was busy on Saturday, I think we have more people in there every week. 

I have been cooking and baking, nearly, non-stop--or at least whenever I'm in the house. 

The cherries on our four trees are ripening up. I pan to get a lot picked...unlike last year. And now that the blueberry bushes have received a sufficient amount of water, the fruit on them is beginning to size up.

 Vegetable list (subject to change):
Mesclun mix
Lettuce heads
Chinese cabbage
Kale
Swiss chard
Peas, sugar
Peas, snow
Green onions
Baby carrots (CSA only)
Strawberries (CSA only)
Broccoli
Cilantro
Oregano
Peppermint

CSA, Week 3

It has been raining on and off for the last few days; mainly Saturday and today (most of the animals look like drowned rats). Finally the gardens will get well watered, and the ponds can get replenished.
The market on Saturday was quite busy.
Between last night and this morning, we picked over a flat of strawberries from our little patch. Strawberry jam time!

Vegetable list (subject to change):
Peas
Broccoli
Strawberries
Lettuce
Mesclun Mix

Striped Roman tomato growing in the greenhouse 

Garlic scapes
Green Onions
Kale
Swiss Chard
Peppermint
Oregano
Cilantro
Spinach
Beet Greens

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CSA, Week 2

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We baled 202 square bales yesterday -- the hay is beautiful and green!   So, of course this means sore arms and scratched up legs.
Most of the things in the garden look pretty good...except for the bone dry soil. I feel like the first couple pages of The Grapes of Wrath will be reenacted on Oakmanor Farm any day. The peas have started forming on the plants, and I ate some and they were very juicy and sweet. We picked our first quart-and-a-half of strawberries yesterday. We  have been setting up our been pole teepees.

Vegetable list (subject to change):
Mesclun mix
Lettuce
Peas
Broccoli
Chard
Kale
Spring turnips
Beet greens
Green onions
Peppermint
Oregano
Thyme
Cilantro
Spinach

Job well done!

Chinese cabbage

CSA, Week 1

Wow, CSA time again! We have had a few busy weeks on the farm, from planting and seeding, to watering. We had a few showers over the past week, but we need so much more water. I wish it would just rain!! So this week it will be lots harvesting, lawn mowing, and watering.
The market started on June 2, we had a pretty successful opening day, and hope the weeks to come will be even better!
We have three new new calves; Zephyrus, Zorro, and Costanza.

CSA Week 1:
Garlic

Beet greens
Swiss chard
Kale
Broccoli
Onions
Spring turnip
Radish
Lettuce
Bok choy
 ~If you are interested in our CSA, shares are still available.

Our table at the market