Newsletter June 2, 2024

We hope to start our CSA Deliveries the week of June 10.  The Northern Section of our area will be starting June 17.  The delivery season will be 20 weeks long with 10 biweekly deliveries.  We will be sending out emails with exact dates of delivery.

Markets are in full swing.  We enjoyed a beautiful day yesterday with sun and lots of smiling faces!

We are done panting onions, tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, carrots and herbs.  We were dragging our feet a little as we wanted to make sure we were past frost unlike last year.  So we waited until this week.  On Tuesday the forecast lows were in the 40's, but as soon as we planted the NWS issued a frost warning.  Luckily the temperature only dropped to 37.  It seems that our last frost for the past few years has been closer to Memorial Day rather than the 15th.  As nice as the spring was, late frosts seem to complicate our strategies for early crops.

Kent is working on remodeling the dairy parlor area.  We are installing lights and storage pallets for dry storage.  The lights are finished and now we need to clean and spruce up.  Organization should be much easier for us with this additional clean space.

Chickens will be moving to their loose housing this week and hopefully to pasture by the end of the week.  Our haylage will be harvested starting this week and we hope to have our winter feed all stored by next week.  We are composting our winter manure as temperatures warm up.  

Our online farmstore is open for add ons to your CSA and also for custom orders to be delivered this Wednesday.  Keep refreshing the store as things grow and become available.