Transition
What the heck is going on this week? Find out below the three important messages. A quick plug to mark your calendar for this year’s GAGG! What is GAGG? It is our annual Gigantic Annual Garlic Gala. We have it every year! This year it is on October 3rd from 1:00 until done. Or the […]
Canning Tomatoes
Just a quick note to let you know we can get canning tomatoes from our Amish partners. The price is $25 for 20 pounds of #2 red slicers or heirloom tomatoes. A 20# box should make between 6 and 7 quarts of canned tomatoes. Let me know by noon Monday, August 31st for delivery to […]
Let’s Get Physical
Sorry for not having a newsletter last week. Things have been a little Helter Skelter. So this week I’ll give you a double album worth of farms news. But first a few announcements. It is never too early to send out the announcement for our Gigantic Annual Garlic Gala! GAGG is our fall get together […]
Random Maturity
A few quick announcements then on to the important stuff! We have a great volunteer opportunity that I am sure many of you would like to take advantage of. We are in need of as many people as we can get to help process the garlic. How does one process garlic? It is quite simple. […]
Heirlooms
We’ll get to this week’s main topic heirloom tomatoes after these brief announcements. For drop-site members: please be aware of what you ordered and only take your items. If you send someone in your place please be sure they know what to take. Also for drop-site members: Please let me know if you have any […]
Garlic Harvest
One quick announcement then on to this past week’s challenge. Three fifths of our crew are students who will be heading back to school in late August. Therefore we are on the lookout for a person or two to help with the never ending tasks of harvesting, washing and packing produce for our shares. If […]
Tomato Warning
This Week’s Challenges First let me tell you that we have significantly reduced the crow damage to our cucumber crop. How you ask? By thinking like a crow. We conducted a thought experiment where we put our minds into the heads of crows. Why were we eating the poor farmer’s cucumbers? And why were we […]
Mid Season Slump
As part of our ongoing project to broaden our appeal to a more diverse audience we hired an image consultant to review our corporate identity and suggest ways to increase our market penetration. After a thorough review of our existing marketing and sales collateral they issued a 47 page report summarizing their findings. What were […]
Have to Days
Not a lot of time to write this week so hopefully this will be a short newsletter. Farm News One nice side effect of having a bunch of new farm members is I can reuse some of my old bits. Like the one about farmers and working outside. To refresh your memory: In farming some […]