Author: joshvolk

Today’s share: chard, carrots, tomatoes, cucumber, summer squash, onions, and lettuce. Chard and tomatoes are the two crops that really stand out for me today. I love putting together the chard bunches and getting to see all of the subtle variations in the colors. It’s from farm saved seed, so that makes it special, too.… Continue reading Summer CSA share – Week 10 of 13

Looking out at the fields I think we’re going to see the trend of the last few weeks continue: more tomatoes, fewer summer squash and cucumbers, possibly some carrots and onions, likely some chard, and a head of lettuce too, I hope. The tomatoes have been doing well, one of the few crops that seems… Continue reading 10th Summer CSA Share Predictions

A bit of a crazy day today, trying to catch up after last week’s heat wave through our schedule into a bit of disarray. Thanks to everyone at pick up this evening for waiting so patiently to collect your shares. Here’s what was in this week’s shares, and will likely also be in Thursday’s share:… Continue reading Summer CSA share – Week 9 of 13

Yesterday was a hot one! We did a bit of pre-harvest for next week, a bit of irrigation, some weed cultivation, and then got out of the fields early. I didn’t stop to look too closely at what’s in store for next week, and I didn’t take my usual photo from the SE corner of… Continue reading 9th Summer CSA Share Predictions

Today’s share has: a small head of lettuce, tomatoes, carrots, chard, summer squash, cucumbers, mini red onions, and basil. I don’t typically go for baby vegetables, but for some reason this year, at least this week, that’s what we seem to be getting from the field. I suspect the field that the onions are in… Continue reading Summer CSA share – Week 8 of 13

A bit later on the post today than usual, perhaps subconsciously avoiding making any predictions. Here’s my guess: more tomatoes, summer squash, cucumbers, carrots, onions, basil and lettuce. There might be a bit of chard in there, not sure how much we’ll have though. There could be more beans but I think quantities on those… Continue reading 8th Summer CSA Share Predictions

Today’s share includes: green beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, potatoes, romano beans, summer squash, sweet onions and lettuce. This is the first time in many years that we’ve put more than one kind of bean in the share at a time. Beans are pretty labor intensive to pick so we try to pick just one variety at… Continue reading Summer CSA share – Week 7 of 13

The shares are getting denser and less bulky as we move away from the spring greens and into more dense fruits and roots. My best guess for next week is: more tomatoes, romano beans, summer squash, cucumbers, potatoes, parsley and a smaller head of red leaf lettuce. On the farm stand I’m hoping we’ll have… Continue reading 7th Summer CSA Share Predictions

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