Dear members,
We’ve been sowing so many seeds thinking of you all lately that we thought it was high time to update you and give you snapshot of what’s been happening out here in the verdant Spring fields!
WHEN WILL THE CSA START?
After this abundantly wet winter our fields are just now drying out enough for us to start working the soil. Because of this, the season’s start will be a little later than previous years, with our goal being a first CSA pickup on Saturday, June 24th. The six months thereafter will, as usual, be an avalanche of free-choice, farm-fresh produce, flowers, strawberries and herbs… all for your culinary enjoyment!
Our amazing crew hard at work giving some love to the perennial herb and flower beds and prepping our annual beds.
HOW WILL I KNOW WHEN PICK-UPS START?
All our important CSA communications are sent via this email and posted on the Newsletters page of our website. We will send out a Newsletter announcing the first week of CSA pickups one week beforehand. The email will contain logistics (like how to find us) and a link to sign-up for an orientation time so we can show you around the farm so you can make the most of your harvest share this year!
CSA SHARES STILL AVAILABLE!
We still have about 5 slots remaining in our 2023 CSA program! If you know anyone who might be interested in signing-up, please encourage them to join! Because, there is really nothing better than spending a Sunday in a garden of flowers nibbling sun-warmed strawberries with your favorite people.
Thanks to contributions form our amazing community, we still have ample Share Price Assistance Funds available to help lower the cost for folks in need of a reduced price share.
A glimpse of the greenhouse, including the first cucumbers and cabbage of the season, hot peppers, tomatoes, and all of the year’s onions.
What's happeninG ON THE FARM?!
Those of you who live close by, or who’ve been picking up veggies from Winter Sister Farm over the winter have probably been following the spectacular drama of the Laguna’s endless rise and fall this winter. It was incredible to have a front row seat to its daily changes, and to the immense amount of water moving through the county. With our lower fields completely covered by water for much of the winter, we felt grateful to be a seasonal farm, with all our tools and materials safely tucked out of the way, able to sit back and enjoy the throngs of waterbirds who seemed so delighted by their newly-created habitat.
Top row (left to right): photos from January 5th and January 9th, Bottom row (left to right): March 10th, and March 15th
We used that rainy, inside time to craft a plan for a season that includes all of our favorite varieties, some exciting new experimental varietals, and an incredible crew and a fleet of new tools to help us pull it all off with a Spring baby in tow!
The greenhouse is filling up with the plants that will take us all the way through the end of the year. Tiny baby celeriac shares space with the first succession of tomatoes, and hot, sweet and frying peppers. This week, it feels like every time you turn around the baby sugar snap peas have grown an inch, and the onions get chunkier by the day. We’ve got some exciting additions brewing in the garden, including spectacular new varieties of Rudbeckia and fragrant Centaurea, just to give you a taste.
We are so excited for you to meet the crew, to get lost in the garden, and to sink into the seasons this coming Summer and Fall.
Until soon...
See you in the fields,
David & Kayta
