Week #14, 2022 | La Finquita del Buho CSA

Green onions
Fresh onions
Lettuce
Parsley or Basil
Chard, kale or collards
Broccoli
Cauliflower
Cabbage (tons of delicious recipes below)
Zucchini
Cucumbers (finally they are here, slow trickle but get ready!)
Potatoes

Another week at the farm. Sugar snap peas are officially done we’re turning over those beds and getting radicchio and the very last cucumbers into the ground. Spring is officially over and we are shifting gears. You will see some of the last broccoli,cauliflower and cabbage that was planted in the spring given this week and next . We hope to have tomatoes, at least a taste of them next week. The cherry tomatoes and greenhouse tomatoes are loaded with fruit just waiting for some of those warm days to ripen that product and get it to your tables. A small heat wave in June set us back in crops like lettuce and radicchio. Neither of those will germinate in extreme heat and so there will be several weeks that we don’t have lettuce. I keep on seeding though and I remain hopeful that seeds that I planted this week will be ready for your tables in September.

I got to use my brand new cedar a few times this week trailing beds of rutabaga carrots and beets. But hitting the timing on the first weeding remains elusive. The arrival of our Swiss friends Pascal and Jean and their two small children has been great but farm work has gotten pushed to the side. We are busy thinking about fall. I have harvested all of my wheat. My poppy pods are coming and I’m filling the upper level of the barn with dried flowers in preparation for wreath making and sunflower birdfeeders. I’m not quite sure what I was thinking of as I seeded and transplanted and I’m now harvesting so many sunflowers. As you drive up to the farm I hope you look to the right at the corner of our property you’ll see a giant sunflower field, something I’ve always wanted and the plants have grown 10 feet tall. Lots of beautiful photo shoots available. If you go out to the orchard and turn west down to the road you’ll see the sunflowers, marigolds and amaranth happy photo taking.

Don’t forget that today Sunday, June 17 from 3 to 430 there’s lavender wand making in the orchard. This is Janet Gill‘s specialty, although she has lots of crafts this is a fun and easy one that’s accessible to everyone if you just follow her instructions. You will go home with at least one fresh lavender wand and the skills to make several more.

I mentioned the winter share in the note last week. I will remind you again sign-up is coming, space is limited and winter is gray. It is always refreshing to have farm grown vegetables in those dark days sign up early to get on the list you won’t want to miss this lineup. Here is what we gave last December: