May 26, 2017
Week 1
Here are some of the items you may be
receiving in your delivery this week:
Green Garlic, French Breakfast
Radish, Gunsho, Beet Greens, Arugula, Bok and Pac Choy
Welcome 2017 Vegetable Season!
This year is off to a fantastic start
with gorgeous greens and amazing radishes. It’s looking like we will all be
enjoying some beautiful sautéed dishes this week. We love to keep things simple
with just a little salt and pepper added or some Balsamic vinegar.
Some chopped green garlic will
certainly punch up the flavor intensity to any dish, yummy with rice.
Anthony is thrilled with the peppery
Arugula arriving, he immediately stated it was salad for dinner mom!
It was wonderful harvesting as a
family again. First thing was to go up to the top of the vegetable patch to see
our tall stalks of garlic emerging from the straw. Those pillars will withstand
a lot they are very secured into the ground. The only way to get them out is to
get your garden fork and lift them, even they it was a good hard pull to get
them free. So… that was my job, the guys then took them and knocked as much
soil off as possible and put them in the bin to go to the house. Love the
color! We have a lot more harvesting to come from this patch with garlic scapes
and the bulbs in the fall. Yum!
The other really fun harvest was the
radishes. I was delighted to listen to the boys get more and more excited.
“Mom!” “Look at the size of this one!” “Wow!” All smiles.
A lot has been happening at the farm.
We already have our first arrival of meat birds plus the new fluff bomb layer
chicks. Pics to come soon. David has been surprising me with many little
upgrades to the farm including a new gravity feeder for the layers and new
nesting boxes.
This year I had to take on a part time
job to get through. As a result I’m finding myself to be even more busier than
normal. Nuts. I started working at the school and now have a position working
in the cafeteria. Fun and exhausting. It’s great to see all the kids and
Anthony and Navarre are happy to have me there too. They are starting to get
used to Mommy setting them up with snacks at home and then finding me up
working later. They’ve had to tell me to stop and come in it’s getting dark.
Honestly I couldn’t stop that night. The bugs weren’t bad with the wind and
there were only 3 more wires to finish on the deer fence.
The next 4 weeks will continue to be
a crazy until school gets out. Oh goodness. Yes stolen moments will get me
through plus maybe meditation and of course, Coffee.
If you have any questions please feel
free to contact me. The apple trees are all in bloom now too. If you are down
near Mahone Bay message me and come check out your farm!
Your Farmer,
Amber
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