CSA Harvest - Week #4

Hello Everyone, 

It's a beautiful Summer morning here. I was out early today and as the sun was rose our neighbor's sheep were all entering the field and excited to scratch their backs on the side roll, so funny. 


I'm happy to see clouds, a chance of rain and a little cool off in the forecast. It is much needed! I think I forget how demanding June is every year. The days are long, the temperatures climb high, the to do lists are endless and trying to determine what to prioritize first is tricky as everything is time sensitive. We found ourselves working a few too many hours this week and I may have had a couple melt downs. Whew! But it's Wednesday, the harvest is complete and I'll be heading to Telluride this afternoon with produce for our wonderful CSA Members. Yes! 

Everything is growing beautifully and so fast right now. It's amazing. I'm really excited about our onions and potatoes this season. Mike gave the potatoes a second hilling yesterday. Grow lovelies grow! 

We spent most of the week weeding and had a few rescue missions. The beets and carrots were completely swallowed by thistle and bindweed, but not any more! 

I discovered the first tomato horn worm last night... seems a bit early? I was out weeding the latest succession of greens when I looked over at the tomatoes and noticed a couple leaves were chomped... and right next to them was this little trouble maker!

Harvest details for Week #4:
Head Lettuce

Bok Choy
Salad Greens
Arugula
Kale (new variety I'm trying, Madeley, let us know what you think!)
Chard
Carrots
Turnips
Snow Peas
Snap Peas
Cilantro
Garlic Scapes

Have a wonderful day and I will see you all soon!

Heat Wave

Hello Everyone! 

It's officially Summer! And the early mornings and late evenings are oh so beautiful and perfect. I love being able to walk outside at 5:30 with a cup of coffee and wander through the garden before the sunrises. 

The middle of the day is a different story though, the heat this week has been intense. I think we've been in the mid 90s for a few days... and that's a little too hot for this farmer! 

Mike has been great about keeping things irrigated so the veggies are growing FAST. I think they're loving the heat. The tomatoes are starting to load up with fruit, whoop whoop! 

We harvested quite a few snap peas this week and the snow peas are just getting started. Fava beans are sizing up and peppers are forming. Grow veggies grow! 


Weeding has been our main focus this week. We have some amazing friends helping us, thanks guys! 

OK, I'm going to leave you with harvest details for the week and this beautiful photo of a Two Tailed Swallowtail butterfly... 

Head Lettuce

Salad Greens

Arugula

Kale

Chard

Cilantro

Basil

Carrots

Turnips

Garlic Scapes

Snap Peas!

CSA Harvest - Week #2

Good morning, 

It has already been a week since our last harvest, time is flying by. It was so wonderful to see all the old and new CSA Members last week! Seeing you all and you're excitement about the produce made my week and reminded me why I'm doing this, to feed people the best produce we can grow. Thanks for being so wonderful and supporting our farm and locally grown food. I'm excited to have you with us this season!

I spent Friday morning trellising tomatoes and it felt so good. They have been growing quickly and had turned into these wild bushes that were falling all over the place, now their trimmed and standing up straight. Thinking in a month or so we'll have walls of tomatoes. Grow beauties grow!

The snap peas have started producing, and they taste like candy. I'm hoping we'll have enough for the CSA next week. 

We enjoyed a few overcast mornings that we heavenly. Perfect weather for weeding and I kept catching myself letting out these appreciative sighs and mmmm noises. Yea clouds! And on Monday afternoon we had thunderstorms and some rain, which felt amazing. 

It looks like a heat wave is coming though, they're saying we're going to be in the 90s this weekend... eek! 

This week's share will include:

Spinach

Salad Greens

Mustard Greens

Kale
Head Lettuce

Carrots

Beets

Turnips

Garlic Scapes

Cilantro

Have a beautiful day! 

Harvest Time

Wow! It's been a hot couple of days around here... I think the veggies are handling the heat better than I am. 

We're just about planted here, minus a second round of beets and carrots scheduled for Sunday and successions of various greens throughout the season. We seeded the winter squash and pole beans on Tuesday, so now it's time to just irrigate, weed and harvest. And... I set up the tomato trellis this morning and we need prune those beauties! They're growing like weeds, flowering and about to set fruit.

I set up the pea trellis a few days ago and was working next to the blooming fava beans, the smell was intoxicating and the buzzing of bees was beautiful. 

Wednesday marked the first CSA Harvest of the season. Wahoo! It felt really good to harvest and I loved seeing all of our CSA Members. This week's share included the following:

Spinach

Salad Greens

Baby Kale

Mustard Mix

Carrots

Turnips

Green Garlic

Herbs (Tarragon, Oregano or Lemon Balm)

Asparagus from Banga's Farm next door

Have a great day!