Main Season Harvest #1 (Week A) should include salad radishes, salad turnips (hakurei), kale, green garlic (whole plant is edible at this stage), head lettuce, lettuce mix, bok choy, and swiss chard. Some items will be a choice. No u-pick just yet.

Welcome to the 2021 Main Season CSA! We're eager to begin harvesting crops we've been working so hard to raise for the past 2.5 months. We've got an awesome farm crew this year including multi-year veterans Pat and Craig, and Sarah who is full of positivity and excitement as a first time farmer. The veggies of our labor - and yours if you've been to a workshift already - are bursting and ready to pick and consume. We'll begin the season with spring stalwarts such as kale, chard, bok choy, lettuces, chicories, radishes, turnips, green garlic which will shortly be joined by u-pick favorites peas and strawberries. In June romaine, radicchio, scallions, kohlrabi, zucchini, cucumbers, beets, cabbage, fennel, beans, annual herbs will also grace our tables. Tomatoes, peppers, carrots, and eggplant should arrive in July. But let's enjoy fresh seasonal produce slowly and fully and not rush ahead.

The farm's been a busy place since late March, when outdoor production fully commences. Basically a switch gets flipped that first week of transplanting and a mad rush begins. We quickly shed our winter pace and dash around the farm. So much field space needs to be planted in spring that by June our managed footprint covers 75% of the farm even though there's still more than 3 months of planting left. All that space for the crops needs to be mowed, chisel plowed, bed shaped, and managed for weeds. By the end of June an internal/external shift begins and the heavy harvesting portion of the year starts. It is a nice feeling when we exit the planting stage, when so many of our crops are in the soil and growing. Management and maintenance still require a lot of time, work, and focus but we appreciate the change. Right now, though, we're intent on harvesting these tender spring crops and hope they don't mind the hot summer-like weather about to descend (ascend?) later this week.

Thank you for joining us for the 2021 Main Season! We are truly looking forward to seeing everyone on the farm again!

Please bring gloves, water, a hat, and sturdy shoes! For now, masks should be worn unless social distancing is achieved (6'+). We meet under the large red maple at the end of the barn by the pick up room.

- BYO baskets/bags/boxes, to bring your harvest home. Sometimes we have donated shopping bags on hand to pack your shares in, but sometimes we don’t!

- Sign up online for a pick-up time slot (log in and sign up on the calendar).

- Check off your name on the sign-in sheet before collecting your share from the barn.

- Follow harvest amounts written on the chalk boards labeled with your share size (Full, half, medium).

- If you need help with anything please feel free to ask a Farm Staffer in the barn for help at anytime!

- Parking is available in the large stone lot at the end of the driveway. Parking next to the barn is available for people with physical challenges and for cars with sleeping kids.

Mondays, 1-8pm

Thursdays, 1-8pm

Saturdays, 10am–12pm

We sent an email earlier this week reminding you of your designated pick up day and week (for half shares). Please email us if you did not receive it.

If you need to switch your pick up day and/or week temporarily, please email us by 5pm the Sunday prior to the week of the change.

To help moderate the flow of people in and out of the farm, we are having members sign up for pick up time slots again this year. You need to be logged in to sign up (log in here). Navigate to the calendar. Click on the person/plus symbol next to the time slot hour you wish to sign up for. The page will refresh. A plus button will then be next to your name. Click it once. Page refreshes. If you signed up successfully a trash can and another plus button will appear (this other plus button is for adding another name to the list but is only used for workshift sign ups).

- Check the u-pick board on the outside of the barn for u-pick crops and amounts before picking. Only crops listed on the board are available for u-pick.

- U-pick crops and weekly allotments can be harvested any day of the week, 8am–8pm Monday through Sunday of your pick up week. So if you can’t do your u-pick on your scheduled pick up day, feel free to come back any other day that week.

- BYO u-pick scissors for herbs and flowers.

- We will provide half-pint, pint, and quart u-pick baskets for members to measure and harvest into.

Currently we are asking members to wear masks when in the barn collecting their shares and practice social distancing. We are limiting the number of members in the barn to 4 at a time. Please form a line extending out towards the herb garden if the barn is at capacity.

Over the years many members have asked the best way to store farm veggies. Ours is probably not the best storage method but it works just super for us. We hang on to plastic bags that we acquire through other purchases and repurpose them, washing and drying them between uses. Big bags (like 2 gallon zip lock bags) work the best. In general we group similar items in the bags with each other. For example with this harvest I put lettuces together, kale and bok choy together, the roots and green garlic together, and the swiss chard all by its little lonesome. Then store in the refrigerator, not in the very back or on the top, or wherever is susceptible to freezing in your fridge. Easy peasy.