It seems like every week I talk about all the bad things happening here on the farm. Things breaking. Weather not cooperating. Pests being pesky. Someone made an off-the-cuff remark that it always sounded so glum but they were still happy with all the great stuff they were getting. So to change things up this week I am only going to talk about all good news from the farm this week! So sit back, grab a cold drink and be prepared to read some happy news!
I was able to start my generator no problem this past Wednesday when we lost power due to the high winds from the storm. The generator hasn’t run in at least a couple years. Great news!
Nobody got lost last week. The high wind made all the plants point in an easterly direction, which made it quite ease for us to figure out which direction was east.
The first planting of corn produced small ears so it won’t fill you up with useless calories. Plus we have it on good authority that it is mighty tasty. The raccoons, the deer and the corn earworms all said so. And you’ll get a lot of it!
The Japanese beetles are the worst not as bad as they could be this year.
The flea beetles are the worst not as bad as they could be this year. Now we won’t have to eat fall broccoli.
We shouldn’t be completely overrun with zucchini this season. One bed of the three zucchini beds isn’t producing very well. Yay!
Smaller garlic bulbs always taste better. All that delicious garlic flavor packed into a miniature package!
We didn’t lose any topsoil this week! Without all these weeds we’d lose a ton of topsoil when we get these deluges of rain like we did Wednesday morning! Let’s all be thankful for weeds!
Temps in the 80’s. Dew points in the 60’s. No breeze. Perfect sweating weather!
What will we have this week? We’ll have sweet corn, potatoes, fennel, eggplant, kohlrabi, cabbage, cauliflower, tomatoes, onions, green beans, yellow beans, zucchini, summer squash, cucumbers, basil, parsley, and probably some other things I forgot. The good news is that for our delivery members you won’t get all these things so you won’t be overwhelmed! These are just the many things from which we choose what goes into your box!
We have Colorado peaches this week. If you ordered them they will be at your chosen pick-up location. Please be sure to look for them.
We also have FruitShare, CheeseShare, EggShare and FlowerShare.
I think everyone has picked up their SeafoodShare and SalmonShare but if not we have those leftover from last week.
As always, send in your questions, comments, jokes and great news when you get a chance!