Red lettuce

 This looks good, too.

Lettuce - Organic - New Red Fire LettuceConventional & Organic

Spring ideas!

We're thinking spring now that the holidays are over.  Lots of ideas.

Looseleaf Lettuce - Salad Bowl Lettuce

2014 CSA details

For those of you who don't know what a CSA is, here's the definition.  CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture.  It's a deal where a farm's customers buy shares in the coming year's harvest.  They pay for those shares in the winter or early spring when the farm needs money for seed and other inputs.  Then when the harvest starts coming in, the share holders get a bag of produce every week for a predetermined amount of time.  It helps the farm when it needs the money and gives out some of the harvest later in the year in return.

Our 2014 CSA will run for 20 weeks, from  from May 17th to September 27th.  We'll include 5 to 10 different types of vegetables every week.  The CSA bag can be picked up at the Falls Park Farmer's Market on Sat. mornings from 8am to 1pm.  We'll do deliveries if we can get enough people to pick up at one location.  Those will be on Wednesdays.

The delivery fee will be $45.00 regardless of the size of the share. 

$615.00 – full share, picked up ($30.75/week)  $651.90 with tax

$660.00 – full share, delivered ($33.00/week)  $699.60 with tax

$335.00 – half share, picked up ($16.75/week)  $355.10 with tax

$380.00 – half share, delivered ($19.00/week)  $402.80 with tax

What, you may ask, is the size of a half share or a whole share?  We mostly sell half shares and whole shares are basically twice as much as is in a half.  Here are some sample half share bags from previous years.

Mid May

Pac Choy
Leaf Lettuce
Kohlrabi
Green Onions
Radishes 
Beets with greens on

Mid July

2 onions
1 bundle carrots
2 lbs red potatoes
1 bag green beans
2 cucumbers
1 cabbage
2 peppers
2 tomatoes
2 bullseye beets

Mid Aug.

2 lbs white potatoes
2 onions
2 peppers
1 lb carrots
1 bundle carrots
4 tomatoes
1 lb beets 


 If anybody is interested in getting one, send me a note.  sdwarners@hotmail.com




 

Later spring 2013

The contents of the first CSA bag.

Planting potatoes.

Preparing to dig potatoes later in the summer.

Our pumpkins and squash did great this year.

Lots of awesome pumpkins and squash.

The farmer's market went well this year, too.

Catching up with the 2013 season

Wow, I've let this slide terribly.  Here are some highlights of the 2013 growing season.

Spinach in the green house early in the spring.

Lettuce seedlings in the greenhouse.

Good thing for the greenhouse, since we had a late spring storm.

Potato Planting

We got our potatoes in yesterday.  44 rows of red, yellow, white and a few all blue potatoes.  That was a bit of work.

Lucas re-made the box on the potato planter.  We didn't get it completely painted before it was time to plant, but it will end up being John Deere yellow.  It worked great and we could get far more seed potatoes in it than in the old one. 

Then Paul went over it all with a drag, in case it rained overnight.  The water could wash down through the rows otherwise.

Greenhouse planting

We've got one of the greenhouses planted now.  I've been getting it open in the morning and closed at night, just like it was late April.  Usually this time of year we only open the vent some from time to time.

We've got onions, lettuce, kohlrabi and beets in there.

And we've been continuing to transplant our bedding plants and patio plants for the Farmer's Market.  This year Kenny won't be helping us at the Market but his younger sister Mercedes will be helping out.  She's been transplanting with us as well.

The plants have been doing very well.  I'm looking forward to having tomatoes and peppers on some of our small patio plants when the Market starts.