This week’s box

Will have the following: broccoli cucumbers lettuce spinach (lots!) spring onions kale There are a bunch of maybes: zucchini:  some of you got a small one last week and we’re going to try to spread a few more around this week peas:  lots there but it might be...

Marketing

We had a nice variety of stuff at the market this weekend. Still limited to mainly spring veggies but with some cucumbers as well. We currently have a bit of a glut of leafy green stuff. A combination of maybe some over-planting and the fact that some of our early...

Cucumbers are ready

Cucumbers will definitely be in the shares next week. In fact we ate the first one on May 30th which is definitely a record for us having cucumbers ready. Here is a list of things that will be in the shares next Tuesday: – cucumbers – broccoli –...

Trellised

We have trellising complete in the hoophouses. It was a fairly big task and had us working in Summer conditions rather the the outside spring weather. For the tomatoes we trellised the outside and middle rows right up to the top of the hoophouse. The outside rows...

Long Term Planning

Some crops require planning ahead more than others. Most of what we’re growing is annuals that start and end all in the same year. I would like to do more perennial crops for the CSA, but planning out quantities is quite difficult. For example, asparagus takes...