FARM WEEK # 7 - July 7, 2011 - Minis - Week # 4

July 6, 2011
Greetings, patient farm members!

I am sorry to be slow late to send you your weekly farm news/what's coming in your share email. My only excuse is that I was goofing off. Seriously. There was lots of visiting, singing, pot luck meal sharing, baby chick showing, garden touring, more singing, laughing, and general carrying on all weekend with friends from far and wide. It was wonderful. I hope you had a happy holiday as well.

I just realized that I did not send an email or post at the blog about what was picked and shared last week. Oops. I guess I started to party early. Please feel free to call or email with questions about your share. I want to help you enjoy your food.

FARM NEWS:
While inspecting the garden on Tuesday morning in order to write this message, I found that the first bush beans were forming many little beans about 1 inch long. Later that afternoon, the little beans were about 1 1/2 inches long. Today (Wednesday) there are some 2 inch beans! They are growing so fast in this warm, summery weather! I think we will be eating fresh beans very soon. And these first beans are just the beginning. We have 4 kinds of bush beans - green, yellow and purple and about 10 kinds of pole beans. Then there will be edaname (fresh soybeans) and fava beans as well. Yum.



HIGHLIGHTS OF FARM NEWS:
Four baby chicks hatched on Sunday!



We ate the first tomato on Saturday, a delicious, orange Jaune Flamme!
All the tomatoes are supported and mulched!
Carrots are starting to size up. There are tiny green hazel nuts. The dahlias have buds.
The Swiss chard is still kind of small, due to weed overload. The crew is working on it!
Lots of SNAP PEAS ready in the Pick Your Own area. Please feel free to pick some for extra for your share.
Mesclun this week includes kale and radish thinnings for vitamins and spice!



More head lettuce coming soon.

THIS WEEK'S SHARES:

FULL & HALF SHARES:
mesclun
little cabbages - I had to pick these before they split. Tiny, but hopefully, tasty.
curly parsley
cilantro
green garlic
a few baby carrots
turnips
turnip greens
pea shoots
Sugar Snap peas - Full Share only, Half Shares are welcome to pick some.
Shell peas - Full and Working Shares only
Chard - for the Full Share only
flowers - rudbeckia, sweet peas? daisies, cosmos, calendula, yarrow, snapdragons, etc.

MINI SHARES:

Several of these items only have enough for 2 or 3 shares. There's plenty over all but it will be first come, first serve if you have a preference. Again, I apologize for the late email.

1 - Your Choice of TWO of these:
mesclun
greens - mustard, turnip, kale or a mix
Sugar Snap peas (picked by LT)
green garlic
garlic scapes
or
Farmer's Choice of any of the above or something else entirely that needs picking!

2 - flowers



I'll be finishing the picking on Thursday morning so let me know before that if you have a preference.

Have a great day and see you Thursday, 12:00 - 6:00.
Laura

Laura Timmerman
910 Greenfield Rd
Leyden, MA 01337
413-773-8325
laurat-at-crocker.com


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