It seems the old adage or "April showers" has changed over the past few years. We had May flowers in March, winter snow in April and our showers in May. But showers are what we needed for our spring field plantings.
Travis has been working on working up more field space on our property, while I've been diligently planting and transplanting seedlings to fill that new space. We are just about doubling our growing space using land that we've kept cover cropped, mowed and pastured for the past two seasons awaiting organic certification this spring.
We have ordered sweet potato slips to grow out this year. They are a crop we've never grown before, but are excited to try. Asparagus is starting to pop up, so with the rain and increased temps, we hope to be harvesting within the next couple weeks. Tenacious rhubarb plants are coming back to life after their winter's rest. Our greenhouse strawberries are getting bigger, and setting more fruit, while the field berries are just starting to come back to life.
We will be back in our summer spot outside Shed E starting this week at the Regional Market and are looking for ward to the start of the Oswego and Watertown markets at the end of the month.
Spring shares start this week, so on top of all the spring plantings and field prep will be spring harvests and deliveries. Spring CSA members should check their emails this evening with pickup site and time details.
This week's harvest will include the following, of which some or all will be in this week's shares:
Red russian kale, baby lettuces, watercress, garlic greens, french breakfast radishes, swiss chard, broccoli raab, spinach, herbs (chives, sage, thyme, or rosemary) and jerusalem artichokes from our friends at Grindstone Farm. Sorry we don not have a more precise list for members this week, but with the early greenhouse harvest we are still working out harvest numbers.
A CSA member referred us to this helpful article on utilizing your CSA produce, that we thought we'd pass on to you. If you click the links on the veggies above, it will redirect you to some recipe ideas for this week's harvest.
We're headed out from the office to harvest for tomorrow's deliveries. Cheers!
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