The first boxes had:

Daikon radish, salad radishes, kale, tat soi, baby stir fry mix, lettuce mix, broccoli, rosemary, oregano, dill and baby spinach.

Next week it will be very similar, yet much more broccoli.  Carrots are still a couple of weeks away, as are beets, peas, cabbage, cauliflower and chard.

We are gearing up for a maha (great) week at the farm, with many hundreds of row feet to be direct seeded.  We are getting 50 yards of compost to bolster the tilth and nutrition of the soil.  That will make 75 yards total this year to supply a farm about 1.1 acres.  That is a lot, but I feel it is necessary to grow the quality of crops that we want.  This also means a lot of work, wheel-barrowing it around and mixing it into the rows.

Fortunately, it isn’t just myself at the farm anymore.  Ryan is here for the rest of the summer.  Very happy am I about this.

We were going to start attending a farmer’s market in town this last week, but our application has to be approved by the board, so we’ll be there this upcoming saturday.  We need that market to sell our extra radishes, lettuce mix, stir-fry mix, dill, broccoli and cilantro.

adios,
drew

I took the day off today.  I went skiing in the back country with my dad, up by Sierra City. It’s part of my sanity reclamation plan, taking days off. Tomorrow is Sunday.  I’ll get there around six (it’s hot this week!), but I’ll knock off early, probably 5. Since I was gone today, I only spent a couple of hours at the farm - watering and generally being anxious about the birds.  I have three really important beds - salad mix/baby spinach, radish, mesclun mix… Read the rest of this article »