Author: joshvolk

Today’s share includes: lettuce, red onions, cucumbers, summer squash, romano beans, carrots, basil and the first tomatoes of the season. We’re about a week behind in harvesting lettuce and with the recent heat and sunny days two plantings are both past ready to be harvested so two heads are going in this week’s share, also… Continue reading Summer CSA share – Week 6 of 13

Carrots, lettuce, basil, romano beans, cucumbers, summer squash, red onions and maybe tomatoes? Fruit set on the tomatoes is looking very promising, with the first tomatoes ripening very slowly – ultimately that should be a good thing, but for now it’s a bit of a tease and I hope we’ll see the first ripe ones… Continue reading 6th Summer CSA Share Predictions

Today’s share includes: lettuce, potatoes, cucumbers, summer squash, romano beans, sweet onion, chard. Our favorite romaine lettuce hasn’t been germinating well this year so instead we’ve been planting out extras of the other lettuces and so this week it’s a mix of our butter and red leaf we’re harvesting, some folks will get one, some… Continue reading Summer CSA share – Week 5 of 13

We continue our usual transition period from spring to full on summer crops this coming week and this is a time when it’s particularly difficult to make predictions, but here’s my best guess: head lettuce, summer squash, cucumbers, new potatoes, sweet onions, and chard. The romano beans are on the horizon, as are tomatoes, but… Continue reading 5th Summer CSA Share Predictions

Red leaf lettuce, carrots, summer squash, gold beets, basil, cucumbers and collard greens. I’ve been hearing from a few members that they’re not making it through their CSA shares in a week – so a more reasonably sized share this week, and lots of stuff that will keep quite well in the fridge if you… Continue reading Summer CSA share – Week 4 of 13

Here’s what the plan from the winter said for this coming week: Collards, cucumbers, summer squash, lettuce, green beans, carrots, potatoes. I’ll be surprised if we get green beans, but the rest of it is all possible. We need to clear out the gold beets so even though we had red beets in the share… Continue reading 4th Summer CSA Share Predictions

Kale, butter lettuce, beets, Hakurei turnips, cucumber, Yukon gold new potatoes, summer squash, parsley and lots of green onions! Both the kale and lettuce look surprisingly good considering the heat they just went through. We’re clearing out the first planting of beets this week, the last planting of turnips, and the last of the green… Continue reading Summer CSA share – Week 3 of 13

We’ve started harvesting and putting summer squash in the shares and three of the four varieties will be on rotation (I hope) for quite a while going forward. From left to right are: Genovese, Mutabile, and Odessa. We only harvest twice a week so we get a range of sizes, but they’re all good at… Continue reading Summer Squash Varieties

Collards, green onions, basil, cucumbers, summer squash, Hakurei turnips, green beans, kohlrabi, arugula, and summer crisp lettuce. A big share today, bridging spring and summer. It’s hard to tell right now what the longer impact of the heat will be, but in the short run it seemed to kick start a lot of the summer… Continue reading Summer CSA share – Week 2 of 13 – and Predictions for week 3!

I sent out a note on Friday to all of our Monday CSA members letting them know we’re not harvesting today due to the heat. We’re going to try to harvest all of the CSA shares together on Thursday, fingers crossed I haven’t underestimated the amount of time that’ll take and any traffic jams it’ll… Continue reading Harvest Heat Delay

The forecast for Monday is crazy hot following a crazy hot weekend! I’m working on the plan for dealing with that right now so if you’re a Monday CSA member keep an eye out for an email update soon – we’ll probably automatically switch you to Thursday for the week unless you explicitly ask to… Continue reading 2nd Summer CSA Share Predictions

Summer is off to a hot start! The heat seems to have killed the snow peas, but that was somewhat expected. Snap peas continued for today and look promising for Thursday as well. Everything else seems to have made a good showing – lettuce, carrots, chard, green onions, mini cabbage heads, and salad turnips! In… Continue reading Summer CSA share – Week 1 of 13

Oh my, next week is summer already! If you’re signed up for a summer CSA share you should have received an email with all the details on picking up your first share (via mail chimp) by now – and if not you should let us know so we can get that to you. Here’s what… Continue reading 1st Summer CSA Share Predictions

Spinach, beets, parsley, radishes, peas, carrots, a first sprig of basil and a head of lettuce (not pictured). I just realized I didn’t put the lettuce in the photo this week, mostly we gave out our Samantha red leaf, but a few folks will get other varieties. Chard was originally on the list, but since… Continue reading Spring CSA share – Week 5 of 5

Chard, lettuce, parsley, peas, carrots, radishes, turnips was the rough plan I made back in January for next week’s share and it looks like we’ll be pretty close. Radishes were a week early and we distributed most of those last week, but we might have another round to harvest this coming week, or just put… Continue reading 5th Spring CSA Share Predictions

Fennel, lettuce, radishes, green onions, peas, and kale. We left the tops on the fennel and they’re a nice addition to salads, or cooked greens. Some folks will get green crisp lettuce and some folks will get romaine this week. The romaine is the super sweet and crunchy Brown Goldring and unfortunately it got a… Continue reading Spring CSA share – Week 4 of 5

Lettuce, kale, fennel, peas, radishes, green onions. I was planning on romaine and some folks will probably get a head of that, but we’ve been having trouble with germination on that variety so most folks will probably get Nevada green crisp. We picked a few handfuls of peas yesterday, and it looks like we’ll have… Continue reading 4th Spring CSA Share Predictions

Choi, green onions, collards, spinach, turnips with greens, red butter lettuce and red leaf lettuce. Normally we don’t double up on the lettuce, but with the heat this week and some extra lettuce in the field leftover from previous weeks it was looking too good to skip and it wasn’t going to hold an extra… Continue reading Spring CSA share – Week 3 of 5

The greens have been doing well and they’ll star in this coming week’s share. Looks like we’ll have plenty of lettuce, likely a bit of our Pirat butter lettuce, and maybe some romaine on the farm stand as well as green crisp and red leaf – might be a double lettuce share, looking at all… Continue reading 3rd Spring CSA Share Predictions

Basic arugula, Samantha lettuce, fava greens, 5 Color Silverbeet chard, Hakurei turnips with greens, French Breakfast radishes with greens, Prize Choi, and Longstanding Bloomsdale spinach. The first arugula and spinach have done well so more of those this week and we’ll probably continue to have some on the farm stand in the upcoming weeks. Both… Continue reading Spring CSA share – Week 2 of 5