The corn is looking pretty good. Despite the early wind and hail that laid it flat, it is now upright and the ears are starting to fill. People have asked me many times, “Hey Chris, how do you know when the corn is ready?” We have a foolproof method here at the farm. It has worked for us since we started growing sweet corn many years ago. In fact I learned this technique from an old farmer down the street. To ensure your corn is ripe and ready wait until the raccoons eat it, then harvest it the day prior. If you wait to harvest it until the day the raccoon eat it then you are too late, because it will already be eaten. So make sure you harvest it before they eat it, but not until the eat it. Pretty simple really.
Another item that is getting close to ready is the cherry tomatoes. So far there have only been enough to go through our rigorous quality control program. The quality test for tomatoes is a destructive test so unfortunately we aren’t giving out any of these yet. However there should soon be enough to go through the test and have some left over for the members to receive. By the way, all cherry tomatoes have passed the quality control test so far.
Starting Wednesday we will be digging the potatoes, unless we find the potatoes aren’t big enough once we start digging them. But that is the hope. We are done with the peas for the season. Pea season is entirely too short.
So what is on the agenda for this week’s produce? Well, as I mentioned we will have potatoes, a variety called Red Gold. It has red skin and gold flesh. Not a very creative marketing department. I though something more like Xiphon would be a better name. Anyway, besides potatoes we will still have lettuce (though this is probably the last week), cabbage, cucumbers, squash/zucchini, kohlrabi, basil, onions, garlic scapes, beets, maybe broccoli, maybe beans and maybe cauliflower, oh, and maybe a very few cherry tomatoes. And some eggplant. And any bok choi that is still out in the field. And possibly kale. I think that pretty much covers it.
FruitShare
No FruitShare this week. Next week we should have cherries. If you are interested in ordering these a la carte please let me know asap. They have been fantastic in the past and there is no reason to believe they won’t be fantastic this year as well.
MeatShare
No MeatShare this week.
CheeseShare
No CheeseShare this week, though a few have yet to pick it up from last week (it came late Wednesday).
EggShare
There is always EggShare.
FlowerShare
There is FlowerShare as well!
That is all. Except for this one joke submitted last week. If you want better jokes you have to submit better jokes.
After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, New York scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years, and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago.
Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers, in the weeks that followed, a California archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet, and shortly after, a story in the LA Times read: ‘California archaeologists, finding traces of 200 year old copper wire, have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network a hundred years earlier than the New Yorkers.’
One week later, The Pioneer Press, a local newspaper in Minnesota , reported the following: After digging as deep as 30 feet in his pasture near Embarass , Minnesota , Ole Olson, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely nothing. Ole has therefore concluded that 300 years ago, Minnesota had already gone wireless.