Sami & Ben harvesting flowers
Andrew doing the same, with onions & garlic in the background.
Here we go again! The box this week looks pretty good to us. We hope you all enjoy it.
We had a little bit of a hard time finding our crew this year, but in the end we have a great crew. You’ll see them at market on a rotating basis or if you come out to the farm we’ll be able to work with them. We have Sammy from Maryland, working her first full season on a farm after a couple of shorter stints on farms in the Northeast. Andrew from Connecticut, the pianist. He’s joining us after working on a small farm in Vermont. And Ben, from Virginia, whose interest in farming started after working on a Zen retreat center in the Bay area. We have one more intern joining us a little later in the season, Maggee, an Asheville native.
Everyone was happy to have the sun come out over the past few days. We’re not able to do many of the tasks we’d like to be doing: planting more vegetable starts, but we have spent our time doing jobs in drier portions of the farm. We trellised all the greenhouse tomatoes, made drying racks for the onions and garlic that will come out in the next few weeks, as well as digging quite a few little ditches trying to drain various wet areas of the farm.
Please return your CSA box next week. These boxes are waxed and are not recyclable, but we reuse them. So PLEASE remember to bring them back next week.