Third Week of July

Disking in the cover crop to prepare for the next planting

It's the third week of July and we finally have a full staff. We lucked out again, and hired one more person this week. Now that our team has expanded we're revisiting some of the decisions we were forced to make the past few weeks and reassessing them. With more people on board we're weeding plantings that we had just about given up on, it feels good. Now that there's a reasonable hope of catching up on things around here, we're working that much harder to obtain the results that we previously thought impossible. The Dill is weeded, so is the next planting of Salad mix, same for the carrots and beets. Having learned from my mistake the other week, I'm going to try to refrain from saying anything that may jinx us (Ref: the truck incident of 2017). Without risking too much, I will say that we're feeling cautiously optimistic! I need to keep the email brief this week, as we're happily busy playing catch up this week. So to conserve time, here's some bullets from the past week.

• I had a sudden medical issue this past week that kept us from attending the Dexter Farmers Market. The matter was resolved, but only after finally discovering 10 on the pain scale. I'm healing up and will be at Dexter this week. My apologies to all of our customers at Dexter, we NEVER miss a market lightly. Looking forward to seeing all of you this week!
• The cover crop just got mowed and disked in preparation for the next planting
• We're slowly moving forward with our plan to turn our 40ft shipping container into a walk-in cooler
• Did some more work on our truck yesterday and seems we resolved a problem with ABS system. It always much less stressful doing planed repairs.
• Tomatoes are happening. They're not in quantities large enough to go to market yet, but usually Helen only has one week in the season of contested tomato consumption ;)

Have a great week! Hope to see you all at the markets!

Fresh from the field

Beans!
Beet Greens
Beets
Cabbage leaves 
Dill flowers!
Flowers
Personal Cabbage (pint sized and delicious)
New Potatoes!
Cucumbers
Swiss Chard
Kale
Salad Mix
Kohlrabi- Like a juicy vegetable apple. Try it raw with a little salt
Napa cabbage
Scallions
Summer squash
Ginger transplants

*We send this email out before harvest, and although we do our very best to make accurate predictions, crops and quantities found at market may vary. ​

One last pic before we mow down the buckwheat

Uptown field in the afternoon