Dear 2025 CSA 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 your very eyes…
Spring is upon us and summer is coming!
We wanted to send you dear members a quick update of what’s been happening and let you know the date of our 2025 harvest season!
Propagation Manager Asa Black and the rest of the crew have been busy filling the greenhouse with the seedlings that will become this harvest season!
2025 CSA PROGRAM START DATE!
Despite another wet spring, our main fields 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.
Since the equinox, the perennial section of the garden has been springing to life.
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 ship 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. It is the most pivotal time of year as 70% of the farm is mowed, tilled, composted and planted. The landscape transforms from green meadows to rows upon rows food and flowers.
We’re in the middle of that transformation now. This week we will plant the year’s sweet peppers, onions, leeks, celery root, and a third of the year’s carrots. Next week we’ll finish planting tomatoes, potatoes, and flour and popcorn.
At this time of year the greenhouse overflows with beautiful starts, which flow into the trucks and then into skilled and careful hands, into the soil. Walkie-talkies beep and boop, the tractor hums constantly, the red-wing blackbirds whistle in the hedgerows.
From L to R: Baby Alice, Aisling, Nuthenroy the Gnome, and new crew members Char and Ava next to their new Gnome Home!
2025 is shaping up to be a delicious and beautiful harvest season.
We can’t wait for you to meet the new crew members, to get lost in the new garden zones, and to sink into this beautiful place and the flavors of the approaching harvest season.
See you in the fields,
David & Kayta
