Sunday, June 28, 2015

 Harvesting cats. Actually, as you know, it was a rainy Saturday so we spent the day in the hoophouses and greenhouse pruning and trellising tomatoes and cucumbers and Dorian didn't mind hanging out with us.
 Juicy Colorado potato beetle larvae eating potato leaves. These are usually a minor pest on our farm that do not do too much damage to our potatoes.
Tiny Swede midge adults on a sticky trap card. This is an almost invisible pest that destroys broccoli, cabbage, kale, etc.

This week's expected vegetables
Choose 6 items (large share 8 items):
cabbage
broccoli
beets
cucumbers
green beans
zucchini/summer squash
scallions
kale 
chard
lettuce mix
baby chard
pea shoots
sunflower shoots
garlic scapes
eggplant (maybe)
eggs (count as 2 items)
flour
dry black beans

Sunday, June 21, 2015

 Two new doeling kids. These two arrived Wednesday morning while we were picking beans. No trouble in delivery and they both seem healthy.
 Start of the kale harvest
 Sad Brussels sprouts with drowning roots
 After a few days of no rain the soil was finally dry enough to till so I spent yesterday on the tractor. And before the rain came down again last night (1.32 inches) we got a bed of greens transplanted and several beds of bean planted.

This week's expected vegetables
Choose 6 items (large share 8 items):
cabbage
broccoli
beets
cucumbers
green beans
zucchini/summer squash
scallions
kale 
chard
lettuce
lettuce mix
pea shoots
sunflower shoots
garlic scapes
eggs (count as 2 items)
flour
dry black beans

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Well these past couple weeks the rain valve has been stuck open and we can't seem to close it. This coming week doesn't look to good either. With our heavy soil spots that are especially poorly drained are now completely saturated and the plants are not happy. Ah well! Hopefully this week we (i.e. Liz) will remember to take some nice photos I can post to the newsletter for next week.

This week we expect to have available for CSA (small share choose 6, large share choose 8):

cucumbers
green beans
zucchini/summer squash
scallions
kale 
chard
lettuce
lettuce mix
pea shoots
sunflower shoots
garlic scapes
eggs (count as 2 items)
flour
dry black beans

Sunday, June 7, 2015

The past few years we have been able to offer eggs from our farm to CSA members only in Corning since we just don't have very many. We hope to be able offer eggs as a CSA choice to members in Elmira this year that are from our neighbors at Wolf Tree Farm. Let us know if you like them, Elmirans.

This week we expect to have available for CSA (small share choose 5, large share choose 7):
raab
scallions
kale (maybe)
spicy mix (maybe)
rhubarb
lettuce
lettuce mix
spinach
pea shoots
sunflower shoots
garlic scapes
eggs (count as 2 items)
vegetable transplants (its the last week we will have them available)
flour
dry black beans