Week 20-Rain

Hi All,

Remember when I asked you all to do what ever you could to bring us some rain? Well, stop it.....really. 9.3 inches Thursday along with 2.5 Sunday, Monday and Tuesday for a grand total of 11.8 inches should do us just fine for a while. Actually Thursday was pretty scary around the farm. I've never seen anything like it. I will upload some pictures to the web site in the next couple of days. Flooding and run off that was devastating. Our small run off creek was over it's banks with fast moving water and wiped out the chicken fence at the front barn. Along with the fence numerous chickens were swept away. I was watching as the water made it's way under the bee hives, expecting to see them tip over and go, but thank God they remained. The lower garden was totally under water for most of the day with the strong current wiping out one of the raised beds that was full of lettuce and carrots. The erosion to the fields that were laying fallow was unbelievable and water was rushing through the front barn like a river. We have 300 strawberry plants waiting to go in the ground, but it's still way to wet to plant. The garlic will go in Columbus Day, we're hopeful it will be dry enough by then to plant that. As I came in from checking everything Thursday I said to VIcky,"OK we've had hail, drought, the hottest summer on record and now a flood, when's the earthquake expected!" I don't know how, but stuff keeps growing. This week in your crates you'll find:

Butternut Squash
Tomatoes
Carrots
Radishes
Mild Lettuce
Spicy Lettuce
Summer Squash
Rosemary
Eggplant
Peppers

Also, we want to thank John and Susan, the innkeepers of the Van Diver Inn in Havre De Grace for putting on a delicious farm to table dinner this past Saturday night. All the stations at the Inn's outside pavilion were dishes made from local products. We contributed Chicken, Butternut Squash and Swiss Chard and Susan turned these ingredients into incredible dishes. All the dishes were paired with organic wine from Bonterra. More on the dinner and other contributors on another post on the web site.

Have a great week.

Vicky and Steve