- Bok Choy: 4 minute saute
- Spring Salad Mix 1#: could use salad in place of spinach in strawberry salad
- Spinach: Strawberry Spinach Salad
- Chive flowers: edible flowers to add to salad or pretty up food
- Mint
- garlic chives
- radishes
- Pea vines: warm orzo salad with mint and peas
- eggs-1/2 dozen
This is the last week of the spring CSA shares. Summer CSA shares begin
next week. If you have chosen to be an every other week member in the summer, I will be sending you your notice to as which week (odd or even of our CSA season) you will be receiving a box. Thank you to our spring CSA members for indulging in the fresh seasonal bounty of springtime! Asparagus season is beginning to wind down here as the temperatures start to heat up.
Nearly all the main season seeding and transplanting is done in the fields. A few last succession plantings will go in this week such as sweet corn, beets, and dill. There are always a few more plantings later for fall crops, but the majority of things are in. Yeah! Now, the weeding race goes on in June through mid July. It seems as moisture is not a problem this year as we have to keep timing our full fledge weed attacks with another major rain. However, our 3 woman crew is working hard and the garden is looking great thus far.
Bok choy is the new item this week. Bok choy is in the cabbage family and ranks very high in vitamin C, K, A, manganese, zinc, antioxidants, and contains omega 3s. Due to the last heavy rain, you will need to wash the inside of the stems before you chop up the Bok choy for cooking. Typically, it is a stir fry vegetable and often is served with garlic, ginger, and other Asian inspired flavors. You may notice a few small holes in the leaves of the Bok choy. This is a little damage from flea beetles which love to make lacy little patterns in this family’s leaves. The damage is only cosmetic.
We incubated some guinnea eggs and now have 10 more little guinnea keets in our brooding room. The guinneas provide lots of entertainment and relentlessly pick bugs all day long.
Speaking of poultry, the laying hens are giving us a little trouble as there production levels have dropped in the last couple weeks. The girls maintained high levels of production all winter long despite me telling them that their vacation time was during the winter. Now, we may be faced with having to replace part of our flock earlier than planned. Another challenge…
As the potatoes are now about 6″ out of the ground, the potato beetles are moving that way. I have placed a bounty on the adult beetles at $.01 a piece. The other morning, both Ashlan and Ethan headed out to the field early to see how many they could find. They picked 300 beetles and earned $2 and $1 respectively.
Eat Well Smile Often.
YourFarmer,
Heather