This year is looking more like 2012 than 2013. You have to be happy about that!
A couple quick announcements.
Payment for your shares is due unless you made other arrangements.
We have onions available for sale. They are approximately 10 pounds for $5. Quite the steal! Contact me if you’d like to purchase a bag or three.
EggShare sales are on hold until we have a better handle on how many eggs our supplier can supply. If you want EggShare but haven’t ordered yet please let me know and I will put you on the waiting list.
Since the EggShares are sold out this might be a good time to mention CheeseShare because what’s a cheese omelet without cheese? CheeseShare comes from the same family farm as the eggs – Castlerock Organic Farm. We carry a variety of their cheddar cheeses as well as their cheese curds and cream cheese. All their cows are raised on pasture, which gives the cheese its wonderful flavor as well as increases its nutritional content! You might say their cows are “pasturized”! But their cheese isn’t. The aged cheeses are raw milk cheese; they do not pasteurize the cheese prior to making it. The curds and cream cheese are not aged so they are pasteurized. In the past we had Castlerock make a cream cheese specifically for Fresh Earth Farms. It was a garlic scape cream cheese made with garlic scapes from the farm – Yum! We have a standard offering of cheese but you are free to substitute any of the other cheeses we carry. It is a great compliment to the veggies you get from us. Please see CheeseShare for more details.
Just a reminder that SeafoodShare and SalmonShares need to be ordered by May 15th. There are only so many fish in the sea (despite what your father told you that day long ago) so sign-up soon!
I suppose I should mention the other shares we resell as well. Check out their specific pages for more details: FruitShare, CoffeeShare, MeatShare and Budding Farmers.
I sent out a survey this week asking for your feedback regarding events here at the farm this season. Please fill it out so that we put the resources into the events our members want us to do. If you did not receive the email and think you should have please let me know and we can check on the email address we have on file.
Farm Happenings: There was a big event here at the farm yesterday. It only happens once per year and we always look forward to it. The grilling season home opener! And much like the Minnesota Twins in 2010, we had a brand new facility this year. We got a new grill for Christmas. Christmas isn’
t the best time to get a new grill – at least not if you live in Minnesota. Grilling in December is a challenge. Then when the grill got covered in snow we gave up for the rest of winter. But with highs in the 70s yesterday it was time. Unfortunately we didn’t have a lot of farm fresh veggies to put on the grill so we had to settle for chicken and grilled potatoes – potatoes from last year’s WinterShare. And they were quite tasty I must say.
Now of course I wouldn’t have mentioned this if it wasn’t for the potatoes because it wouldn’t really be farm news. But with the potatoes it becomes farm news. And because it is specifically potatoes – as opposed to the many other veggies we grow – it is quite timely. This is the time of year we plant potatoes. And when we plant potatoes we like to share the fun with all our members. So this year we are scheduling the potato planting party for Saturday April 26thfrom 2:00 to 4:00. This is a great spring event for kids of all ages. Most of the potato planting does not involve stooping and potatoes are big enough for small children to handle successfully. It is great fun! Who’s in? (RSVP please).
Other than grilling, this time of year involves greenhouse planting and equipment maintenance. This week it was finally warm enough to move some of the plants from the warm confines of the greenhouse to the more volatile confines of the coldframe. This helps acclimates the plants to the harsh outdoor climate they will eventually reside. Hopefully the weather will stay warm and dry for the next week or so. Then we can get the tractor out and start working on planting our future food!
That is all for now. As always, feel free to contact me with questions, concerns, jokes, brain teasers, etc.