First Spring CSA Day!!!!!!

Finally, just in time for the first CSA day, some warm weather.  It's been as consistently cold a March and April as I can recall, and until a few days ago, I thought for sure we'd have to postpone the first day...but here we go!!!  Note to self: when the sun don't shine, hoop houses ain't warm!

This first week is a tad lighter than I would like, but we'll make it up in coming weeks.  The asparagus just popped it's head out of the ground a couple of days ago!!!! That's the latest ever.

This week, enjoy tender vegetables packed with taste.  Taste!!!! The only tasty vegetables we eat all winter are ones we froze or canned last year.

This week you can choose six out of the following seven items: arugula! spinach! pea shoots! radish/kale microgreens! chives! French sorrel! parsnips  (overwintered in the field--very sweet!). 

Everything is very tender and delicious--use with minimal alteration.  The chives, sorrel, pea shoots, and arugula all make wonderful pestos. 

In the next couple of weeks we'll have asparagus (it comes on fast!), radishes, baby beets, and baby turnips, and of course, plenty of greens, including what we have this week, and also lettuce mixes, asian greens, and mustards.

Please take time to walk through the garden!  Thousands of daffodils are blooming.

We have Water Buffalo yogurt, blue cheese, Red Jacket juices, beans and polenta, and honey at the farm stand.

See you tomorrow!

Thursday, April 25 will be first spring CSA day!!!

"The very beginning is perhaps the best part of a garden. Now the breeze feels as soft and sweet as it used to be on the first spring day that I could go barefoot. The whistle of a cardinal comes from far off through the hazy air. The sun, riding higher in the sky, arouses not only the buds and seeds but also the dormant hopes of the gardener. The memory of past mistakes and failure has been washed out by winter rain. This year the garden will be the best ever."          Harlan Hubbard

It was a long, very cold March, and we're a good 2 or 3 weeks behind last year's schedule, but never fear, we will have plenty to offer in just 2 weeks--arugula, sorrel, chives, pea shoots, microgreens, possibly radishes if it warms up enough, but likely not, perhaps a salad mix, though looking at the forecast, that will likely wait until the following couple of weeks.  Asian greens are coming along, but we'll see.  Asparagus is way behind and hasn't even broken ground yet, which is the best evidence we have of how cold early spring has been.  Spinach is progressing nicely, and the first carrots and onions and beets and turnips have started.

We have vegetable seeds from Hudson Valley Seed Library at the farm stand for anyone with their own gardens.  The packages are beautiful and the varieties are all ones we grow happily.

We will have milk, butter, cheese, and eggs at the stand.

Look forward to seeing everyone in 2 weeks!  If anyone needs to pick up on a day other than Thursday, please let me know.