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Potatoes, romano bean, cucumbers, sweet onion, summer squash, tomatoes and lettuce. We dug the last of the potatoes today, a bit earlier than planned, but they were ready early probably as a result of the warmer than usual April and cooler May which was perfect conditions for them. The yellow potato is German Butterball, a… Continue reading Sixth Summer Share

Thursday we had an extra large harvest of the yellow Romano beans and cucumbers, and the first harvest of sweet onions. We’ll definitely have sweet onions for Monday this coming week, and likely red onions again in Thursday’s share. Lettuce will continue, as will cucumbers and summer squash, and I’m hoping we’ll have yellow beans,… Continue reading Predictions for Summer Share #6

Speckled lettuce, red onion, summer squash, yellow romano beans, three types of cucumber, and celery. Smaller heads of lettuce today and Thursday may get a different variety depending on what happens with this heat wave. Thursday will also get sweet onions since they got red onions last week. Summer squash will probably be a mix… Continue reading Fifth Summer CSA Share

It looks like warm weather is returning after that cool, gray day we had Thursday. The summer squash and cucumbers seemed to just hit a peak of sorts and the return of hot weather will help them produce more. The bush beans are basically done, but it looks like we’ll probably have romano beans next… Continue reading Predictions for Summer Share #5

Beets, parsley, green beans, cucumbers, summer squash, green onions and lettuce. Lots of notes on today’s share, and Thursday will probably be a little different. Beets are a combination of yellow and red and to be honest, this crop did not do well so just a few of various sizes. As noted last week, the… Continue reading Fourth Summer Share

It feels like we’re finally getting enough warm weather for the summer squash and cucumbers to start producing so those should be staples for the next month or two, with some variation in the varieties. We should have lettuce, although next week’s planting was one where multiple different varieties were planted due to poor germination… Continue reading Predictions for Summer Share #4

It looks like it’s going to warm up this weekend so I’m keeping my fingers cross that will mean the summer crops like summer squash and cucumbers finally start producing something other than a slow trickle. We’ll have lettuce as usual, new potatoes should be back in the shares, there are some gold beets that… Continue reading Predictions for Summer Share #3

Lettuce, carrots, green beans, green onions, and collard greens. Summer squash was on the farm stand again with not quite enough to go in the shares. We also had the last of the peas and fava beans on the farm stand. There are some favas held over that will be on the farm stand again… Continue reading Second Summer Share 

Lettuce, kohlrabi, favas, Yukon Gold potatoes, snap peas, chard and the first basil sprigs (not pictured). The lettuce is Fine Speckled Oak, a new one for us and we’ll have to see how it holds up in this week’s heat for Thursday. The kohlrabi was mostly large, some folks got smaller ones. Definitely peel it,… Continue reading First Summer Share

Today is the first day of summer and tomorrow, Monday, is our first summer share of the season. It’ll probably be a small(ish) one as we wait for some of the summer crops to catch up after some cold nights we had back in May and early June when the main crops for summer we… Continue reading Start of Summer!

We’re down to the final two weeks of spring. Today share has green onions, salad turnips with greens, snap peas, carrots, arugula, kale and a head of lettuce (not shown). I totally forgot to put the lettuce in the photo but it was a choice of red leaf or green oak. The arugula looks great… Continue reading Spring Share #4

We’re down to the last two weeks of spring after a short season this year. It looks like we should have arugula, lettuce, salad turnips, chard or kale and green onions. We’re keeping an eye on carrots and kohlrabi as possibilities so I’m hopeful those will be in there too. We’re picking peas and those… Continue reading Predictions for Fourth Spring Share

Collards, lettuce, salad turnips, radishes, fennel and beets. We also had spinach and the first snow peas on the farm stand today, as well as a bit of chard and rhubarb. There was a mix of lettuce types so some folks will see a different type in their share. Both the fennel and beets were… Continue reading Spring Share #3

The second B weeks share was similar to A with a couple of modifications: collards instead of kale and extra bok choi instead of red mustard. We also had a bit of chard and spinach on the farm stand, as well as rhubarb and extra turnips, radishes, and lettuce. Here’s what I think will be… Continue reading Predictions for Third Spring Share

A slightly larger share than I planned for due to good yields of turnips and mustard greens, and some of the better choi we’ve had for a few years now: Choi, green onions, red mustard, salad turnips with greens, radishes with greens, kale and red speckled oak leaf lettuce. The B week will probably get… Continue reading Spring Share #2

Lettuce, turnips/radishes, kale/collards, choi, green onions. I’m not sure if the radishes will be ready for the A week but they’re coming and we still have turnips from our first planting so there will at least be more of those. Similarly, the first planting of kale didn’t do wonderfully well, but the collards look like… Continue reading Predictions for Second Spring Share

It was great to see lots of old CSA members and new ones tonight at our first spring pick up of the year. In the share were: lettuces, rhubarb, salad turnips with greens, red mustard, arugula and baby leeks. A decent start to the season and not exactly the predicted share, but pretty close. Two… Continue reading Spring Share #1

Here’s my best guess at what we’ll be harvesting on Thursday: baby lettuce heads, sorrel, red mustard greens, small salad turnips with greens, and possibly baby leeks? We’ve been back and forth with the warm sunny and cooler overcast days. The crops aren’t quite as big as they’d ideally be, but that’s pretty much always… Continue reading Predictions for First Spring Share

I got back from Japan last night and to push through the jet lag I headed out to the farm this morning to get some radish and carrot seed and lettuce seedlings in the ground before the rain. Looks like Sara’s been keeping the weeds at bay and Sam kept the greenhouse watered and the… Continue reading Spring Update

Our spring CSA season starts in just over two weeks. Sara and Sam are taking care of the farm while I (Josh) am all the way across the ocean checking out the beaches in Miyako. I also got to visit with a friend here who grows buckwheat and has a little restaurant where he makes… Continue reading Spring Break Update