A lot of firsts in the share this week! First carrots, first squash and zucchini, and the first tomatoes for the full shares. There’s a lot more of each of those on the way in the coming weeks. We recommend taking the greens off of your carrots before storing them. Next week we will have fingerling potatoes, too. It was just too wet this week to dig them as we have gotten even more rain. Still, it is exciting to have the first of the typical June crops coming in. As new things come in, others finish up. The lettuce is gone until fall. I will miss it, but everything has its season, and I will look forward to its return in the fall.
We have finished harvesting the onions out of the high tunnel and we have sure gotten some whoppers! These are still fresh onions and should be refrigerated. There are still many more onions in the field, some of which we will cure in the greenhouse so that we can store them for the coming months.
On Saturday morning it was rainy and I was on the lookout for salamanders while I was packing the van for the farmers market at 4:45 and lo and behold, I found
one. Today, Brady from the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science came out to the farm to take a toe from our salamander. Don’t worry, the toe will grow back. They want to have a genetic sample of our salamander population. Brady was later than I expected because he had stopped on the side of the road to collected cuttings from a native rose. Sounds like someone I know (it’s me). We started talking plants and he left the swamp rose (Rosa palustris) and also some eastern prickly pear (Optunia cespitosa) for me to propagate and steward as samples of the local ecotypes – plants best adapted to our specific environment. What a fun week for ecology!
Small Shares
- Candy onion
- Savoy cabbage
- carrots
- beets
- squash and/or zucchini
- kohlrabi
Full Shares
- Candy onion
- Savoy cabbage
- carrots
- beets
- squash and/or zucchini
- kohlrabi
- heirloom tomato
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