May Farm Tour Photos / Farm Work Day Info

I was realizing the other day that I am ready for the change in food that will come with the season’s change to warm weather. I really enjoy winter greens, soups and salads but I think the time has come to switch into something else so that when next fall rolls around I will again be excited about kale, chard, carrots and leeks. I am looking forward to warm summer evenings and a grill sizzling summer squash and eggplant.

Recently I have been foraging through the fields picking greens for dinner and daydreaming about the tomatoes, squashes, cucumbers and melons the same ground will be producing in a few months. Eating with the seasons is enjoyable, a change that we have no control over. At the end of every season I have enjoyed this season’s food and weather and am ready for the next. I guess that is what life is about, enjoying what you have and looking forward to what will come.

My mind has been on summer crops for the past few weeks. Our fields have all been assigned to their summer jobs. The list of work to be done to each field is in my head and the seeds for each field have been purchased. The tomato transplants are on their way, waiting for the middle of March to arrive.

The middle of March is an important date because it is when our operations make the assumption that the risk of getting a frost that would kill summer plants is no longer a worry. This date has come to exist from empirical information; in the years past early March has proven to provide temperatures that have frozen little tomato plants to death.

All farmers have a date specific to their farm, microclimate and past experience. It is a funny little piece of information, something that is handed down from generation to generation. The date is never modified to be earlier in March, it will only get pushed back – the risk of loosing an early summer planting is too dangerous to play with.

Enjoy your boxes this week knowing that we are doing everything in our power to get the spring and summer fruits and vegetables to you as soon as we can. – Thaddeus

June 27,2007
Already Thinking of Fall-Thaddeus

June 20, 2007
A Week of Benchmarks -Thaddeus

Jun 6, 2007
Goslings in the Creek -Thaddeus

May 30, 2007
Tomatoes -Thaddeus

May 23, 2007
Summer Smells -Thaddeus

May 9, 2007
Muddy in May -Thaddeus

May 2, 2007
What a Busy Week-Thaddeus

April 4, 2007
Gopher Food - Thaddeus

March 28, 2007
Spring Silence - Thaddeus

March 21,2007
Spring Buds and Worm Food - Thaddeus

March 12, 2007
Spring Gobbles - Thaddeus

March 7, 2007
Spring Time - Thaddeus

February 26, 2007
Summer Food Please - Thaddeus

February 19, 2007
Peach Blossoms and Arundo Burning - Thaddeus

February 12, 2007
Chris Leaves - Thaddeus

January 31, 2007
Heart Attack- Thaddeus

January 24, 2007
Turkeys Can Fly- Thaddeus

January 10, 2007
Live the Seasons- Freeman

January 1, 2007
Happy New Year Thaddeus

Nov 29, 2006
Organic? - Thaddeus

Nov 15, 2006
Winter Preparation - Thaddeus

Nov 1, 2006
Canal Dries Up - Thaddeus

Oct 25, 2006
Beets - Thaddeus

Oct 18,2006
New Database - Thaddeus

Oct 11,2006
Rain, Sweet Rain - Thaddeus

Oct 4, 2006
Organic Fertilizers- Thaddeus

Sept 27, 2006
Windy Days - Thaddeus

Sept 20, 2006
Clean Produce - Thaddeus

Sept. 13, 2006
Cools Coming - Thaddeus

December 12, 2005
Wrapping Things Up For Winter - Thaddeus

December 5, 2005
Au Revoir, Automnal - Noah