The News from Windflower Farm
Greetings from all of us at Windflower Farm! Thank you for joining us for the 2024 farm season. We hope you enjoy your CSA experience. Your first shares will be arriving this week.
What’s in the share?
- Toscano kale
- Spring salad mix, bunched
- Radishes
- Baby green onions
- Purple basil pot
Fruit share members: 1 pint of strawberries
What’s new on the farm?
What!? This is all? I spent all that money for this? No, there will be more, I promise. This week marks just the first of what will be 22 deliveries of produce. It’s early days as the harvest season goes, so the share is light. We’ll start with what we always start with: a couple of kinds of salad greens, radishes, green onions, and herb pots. Next week, we’ll add lettuce to the lineup. By week three or four, we’ll add such items as cucumbers, zucchinis, and sweet Japanese turnips to the mix. Not long after that, you can expect to see your first broccoli, cabbage and bunched beets. And by week seven or eight, you’ll start getting tomatoes, sweet corn and green beans. Our goal is to send eight or nine items per week once the season is truly underway.
If you’ve ordered an egg share, look for it to start in this first week. Fruit shares are starting this week for Thursday sites with one pint of our strawberries.
We had about of inch of rain on Monday, which was greatly needed. Anticipating wet conditions, we prepared a couple of acres for this week’s planting. We disced our rye cover crop, turned it under, applied compost, and then formed the beds into which we’ll do some planting a little later in the week. Every week, we plant lettuce, corn, radishes, and salad greens, in addition to other things. Tomorrow, because of the rain, we plan to transplant sweet pepper plants into beds in our field greenhouses. They have names such as Carmen, Escamillo, Brocanto, Milana, and Flavorburst.
In our main seedling house, we’ll sow winter squash seeds, including butternut, acorn, Delicata, and pie pumpkins, to be planted out in the field some 14 days from now. Later in the week, once the fields dry out, we’ll plant cantaloupes and watermelons. Getting the farm started each spring makes for a busy pace!
Have a great week, Ted
PS. Here is a brief note from Andrea, our membership coordinator.
If you sent us a payment recently, thank you very much. I’m a little behind on sending confirmations of payment, but hope to email them to you within the next week or two. Please feel free to reach out to us if you have a payment question. Thank you!
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