A few announcements followed by a bit of farm news.
Still taking orders for everything. If you want plants please order soon since we grow those special just for you!
Final payment for 2025 is due this month unless you chose to be on a payment plan. If you don’t know what you owe contact me and I will look it up for you!
If you refer someone to our farm and they sign-up for a VeggieShare we will give you a $25 gift certificate for helping us out! Have them put your name in the “Where did you hear about us?” section of the order form. Now the question is, what can I spend my $25 on? Well, anything in the store but maybe you want to spend it on this:
Introducing our new line of Fresh Earth Farms Merchandise! That’s right! Move over Izod, your alligator now has a Tomato to compete with. For those of you who like wearing clothes, we have a great opportunity for you. Hoodies. T-shirts. Polo shirts. Baseball caps. And of course a fancy tote bag to take home your veggies! All items are made when ordered and shipped directly from our supplier so it may take a bit longer to receive them than pre-made merchandise; plan accordingly. Makes great gifts!
Farm News
There is a lot happening on the farm lately. Shouldn’t really be this way yet, but here we are. We replaced the old wooden garage door on our wash area. Looks pretty nice I must say. And boy-o-boy is it easy to open compared to the last one. We still need to replace the water heater in the wash area — not that we use hot water to wash the produce but we do use it for cleaning purposes. It seems to be leaking and the previous owner was kind enough to not put a valve on the supply line. So we have to turn off the water to the whole building to replace the heater. Such is life.
Let’s see. Oh, we had one of the Scotts (we have multiple members named “Scott” who help out on different things but you don’t need to be named Scott if you want to help) come out to try to fix the raspberry PI we use to control the greenhouse. So far we’ve learned a lot, used some fancy electronic equipment and continue to have the same old problems. But I feel we are getting closer — closer to giving up. No, we won’t give up. But we have some ideas of what to check next. We just need to be right there in the greenhouse when it is about to happen so we can measure voltage right before it happens. After it happens we are too late. And if it isn’t happening at the moment it isn’t a problem. But get it right at the right moment and maybe we’ll learn something and figure out how to resolve it. How hard can that be?
What else, hmm. Oh yea, we are planting seeds in the greenhouse! How ’bout that! Actual farming and not fixing stuff or selling stuff or fixing stuff. So far we have planted shallots, onions, leeks, green onions, kale, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, parsley, oregano, thyme, super-duper hot peppers, Brussels sprouts, and various flowers for FlowerShare. We have rosemary and lettuce left to plant this week. The greenhouse is filling up nicely!
Joke of the Week
Did you know that there is a Law that everything on Earth is either salad or not salad? It’s called Cole’s Law.
As always, do not hesitate to send in questions, comments, suggestions, merch orders or other interesting info.