Farm Update

Down on the Farm Okay, let me get this straight, we were living in a tropical jungle full of hot, extremely humid, pollen filled air.  Now, suddenly, we have found ourselves in the Pacific Northwest full of cool, damp, often rainy weather that won't seem to end.  A thirty degree turnaround the beginning of the week!  What's up? Farming is so full of delights and challenges. Even though it was "tough going" harvesting in the rain and mud for the first week of our vegetable CSA, we are under way for another year.  We love seeing the folks we haven't talked to in a while along with all the new faces.   However, there was a major devastation this week as well.  A fox, we believe, dug under a fence in our broiler chicken area Monday night and killed all one hundred chickens.  It's hard to have sympathy for a hungry animal that kills 100 other animals and leaves most of them behind.  I can take the occasional loss.  I mean, every thing has to eat and feed their young, but just killing everything in sight makes me crazy. Enough of that.  When's the sun coming back? In our market this week: Arugula Mild Salad Mix Mustard Greens Spinach Bok Choi Spring Onions Kale Lettuce Collard Greens Spicy Greens Mix Duck Eggs Eggs Honey Swiss Chard Turnips Herb Plants We also have a variety of mints available, including: Mojito Chocolate Peppermint Spearmint Mint Julep Lemon Our thanks to Chef Colleen, the Savory Chef, for sharing some recipes with our CSA members.  Soon we will be posting her delicious recipes on our web site. Also, we want to give a huge thanks to our organic growing partners Peggy and Joe Ardolino.  They have started helping us  during one of the most trying Spring growing seasons we have had. Also Also...we have been presented with an opportunity to carry organic, non-GMO, fresh ground, whole wheat flour.  We have tasted some waffles made with this flour and they were delicious.  No taste of bitterness you find sometimes with whole wheat.  The difference....freshness.  Let us know if this might interest you.

Locally Yours, Vicky and Steve