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This week was a hot one. I arrived at the farm earlier than usual on Wednesday to finish the morning’s harvest fast, but was forced to stay later than expected when I realized that a horde of harlequin bugs had started chomping up my tomatillos. I spotted the stinkbug relative and ladybug look-a-like earlier in [...]
Low harvests led me to take last week off, but CSA deliveries were back to normal on Wednesday. The contents of this week’s box: fennel, zucchini, flat-leaf parsley, basil, arugula flowers and heads of lettuce. I thought the salad was dunzo when the weather turned hot and the plants began to bolt, but I was [...]
Another week, another round of deliveries! The contents: one sandwich-sized bag arugula, one sandwich-sized bag mixed mustard greens and kale, one snack-sized bag sugar snap peas, one bunch flat-leaf parsley, one bunch basil, one bunch spring onions and one bag edible mustard and arugula flowers.
While I wish the boxes could be bigger, I’m pleased with [...]
So much growth has happened so FAST. I sometimes don’t realize it until I glimpse an old photo or two, of a plant when it first emerged in the greenhouse or when it was first put into the ground. Other times, a plant will change in just a couple of hours, will look different, bigger, [...]