Hello dear members!
We hope you’re enjoying this beautiful spring.
Here on the farm, the greenhouse is fast filling up with a multitude of flowers, tiny baby tomato plants, and a sea of onions that we’ll be enjoying til this time next year. The crew is hard at work ensuring an abundant strawberry year by clipping runners in our new strawberry patch, and doing an epic revamp of the back of the barn and wash/pack area. The seeds are ordered, the fields are getting mowed, and we’re getting excited for another season.
We’re writing with a small Farm Stand update (and sale!) and an invitation to a spring work party on the farm.
A quick note: This update is going out only to returning CSA members. New members won’t be invited to the farm until CSA pickups begin in June, so that they can be oriented, but don’t worry — they’ll receive all the important spring updates, and you are welcome to bring them along with you if you’re coming out.
Bumblebee enjoying the flowering currants in the hedgerow.
HEDGEROW WORK PARTY!
Since we moved the farm here five years ago, our dear friend Laurel has been helping us plant and tend the native hedgerow along the edges of the upper fields. In spite of the gopher’s best efforts, it’s slowly becoming a lush habitat border for pollinators and birds. This time of year it needs a little extra love, so we’re inviting returning members to come out Saturday morning to help with the weeding, do a bit of chatting, some playground playing, and enjoy the sun.
SATURDAY, APRIL 18th AT 10 AM
Please RSVP to Laurel: laurelmalinanderson@gmail.com
Let’s meet at the solar panels to grab tools then head to the hedgerow north of strawberries (between WCCF and Winter Sister). Bring your favorite hand weeder! We’ll have some tools as well.
If anyone loves weedwhipping there is also a need for some of that starting at 9 am!
FARM STAND
GREEN GARLIC & A SPRING SALE
Thanks to everyone who came out to the Farm Stand this winter! You’ve helped us clear out most of our remaining storage crops, and kept the crew busy during the quietest time of the year.
We’ll be closing the Farm Stand down Monday, April 13th.
But until then we’re offering some gorgeous green garlic, and a sale on our remaining Celery Root and Winter Squash. Here’s what you can expect in the Farm Stand this final week:
Green Garlic!
the very last of our Onions & Shallots
A few remaining Potatoes
Dutch Butter Popcorn
Floriani Red Flint Cornmeal
Celery Root — on sale for $1/lb!
Assorted Winter Squash — on sale for $1/lb! There’s still a few of our favorite — Bonbon — which are still as sweet as candy.
Looking forward to seeing you in the fields soon,
David & Kayta
