Harvest #4 (Week B) should include romaine, kale, chard, radicchio, escarole, dill, cilantro, kohlrabi, turnips, radishes, head lettuce, lettuce mix, scallions, and garlic scapes. Some items will be a choice. U-pick should include strawberries, snow peas (!), and herbs from the herb garden. We jumped the gun on the peas last week. They weren't quite ready, but should be by this coming week. Sorry for any confusion or harvesting challenges.

What can I say? A month's worth of rain in a week following the driest 3-week stretch in May I can remember, along with record heat and record cold. It keeps us on our toes, I guess. But it could be worse. Overall crops are thriving and healthy and farmers are in good spirits.

Now that we're into June we're slowly transitioning from lots and lots of planting to additional maintenance (weeding, mowing, trellising, etc) and extra harvesting. Three thousand sweet potato slips go in the ground this coming week - if it's dry enough to get into the fields - which basically wraps up our large spring plantings. In the past couple of weeks leeks, cantaloupe, winter squash, watermelon, zucchini, cucumbers, eggplant, and okra were transplanted along with the weekly and biweekly successions of scallions, cilantro, dill, basil, and lettuce. Ample rain plus heat means crops and weeds will grow like mad. Driving lanes and some crop aisles desperately need to be mowed. Trellis infrastructure has been installed and initial pruning and clipping was done to both field and tunnel tomatoes. They seem to add a foot of growth per week. Eight thousand feet of potatoes were cultivated and hilled a week ago and will need another round before they get too tall. Hilling provides more room for the potato tubers to grow and will hopefully increase yield.

I hope you've been enjoying the early season shares!

This week's workshift schedule:

Please bring gloves, water, a hat, and sturdy shoes!

We meet under the large red maple at the end of the barn by the pick up room. Workshift Guidelines. Workshift Sign Up Instructions.

We're in need of a small push mower for field aisle maintenance. If you have one laying around that you don't use anymore please let us know!