Dear members,
The farm is abuzz. The greenhouse is overflowing with seedlings; fields are being shaped and crops planted daily; the summer garden flowers and herbs seem to grow before our eyes…
Our 2025 harvest season is right around the corner!
We wanted to send you a quick update of what’s been happening and let you know our 2025 start date!
2025 CSA PROGRAM START DATE!
Despite another wet spring, our main fields have dried down fast enough to allow us to open the CSA for Father’s Day weekend.
Our first Saturday pick-up of 2025’s harvest season will be Saturday, June 14th; our first Tuesday pick-up will be Tuesday, June 17th.
The six months thereafter will be, as usual, an avalanche of deliciousness.
A few days before the CSA starts we will send an email with all the logistics like how to find us, what to bring, and orientation times for new members.
Note! All of our important CSA communications are sent to your inbox via this email and are also posted on the Newsletters page of our website.
FARMER’S LOG
SETTING SAIL
The period from January through mid-May is a very important time on the farm.
From New Year’s Day to early April, our boat is at harbor. The next voyage, the year ahead, is plotted in smoky cabins; our farm-ship is moored, scraped, and every corner is cleaned; the sails are mended, new masts set, and the carpenters work overtime; the hull is provisioned and loaded.
This year’s harbor time on the farm was incredibly productive.
Eric Bueno, who joined us in January, hit the ground running, tuning up all our equipment and building new toys for us to play with this summer, like weed-killing harpoons.
Asa and Aisling were busy shepherding out the last of 2024’s bounty from the greenhouse to FEED Cooperative, tending our garlic and strawberries, and filling the greenhouse with the seedlings of this year’s bounty.
Henry, Riley Reed, and Arabella Wood joined us in early April and then we pushed off.
From mid-April to mid-June we sail at full mast. 70% of the farm is mowed, tilled, composted and planted over that period. The landscape transforms from green meadows to rows upon rows food and flowers.
We’re right smack in the middle of that transformation process now. We’re getting our sea-legs and our hands are getting calloused. This week we will plant the year’s Sweet Peppers, Onions (yes, all of them), Leeks, Celery Root, and a third of the year’s Carrots. Next week we’ll finish planting Slicing Tomatoes, Potatoes, and Corn.
The pace is relentless. Walkie-talkies beep and boop, the tractor hums constantly, and the red-wing blackbirds whistle in the hedgerows in the morning. Seedlings flow out of the greenhouse, into the trucks, and then into skilled and careful hands and, finally, into the soil.
In a few short weeks, we’ll be enjoying the spoils: Nutritious food, beautiful flowers and herbs, and many many memories of time well spent with family and friends as the seasons change on the farm.
See you in the fields soon,
David & Kayta