CSA Information
Single, Family, and Flower Shares begin on Wednesday May 29th - Come to the farm store any time between 12noon and 5pm to pick up your weekly share! Farm Store Members - Farm Store will be officially opening this Friday May 24 at 8am. Come any time from then on during store open hours to redeem your store credit and discount. We will be in the store to help you when you arrive to assist you in any way you need. Summer Share begins Wednesday July 3rd
In the Store
Baby Kale Salad Mix Spinach Radishes Hakurei Turnips Rhubarb Eggs Ground Spiced Mutton
Wet and Cold
Thank goodness for our seedling greenhouse and our High Tunnel hoophouses, because the weather and soil conditions have been a huge challenge. The amount of rain we've had without the sun and warmth to dry it out has meant most of our gardens have been too wet for any kind of tillage or planting. However, we were able to start planting in one of our high tunnels on March 5 and have been enjoying salad greens, spinach, pea shoots, radishes, and salad turnips since mid April. Our seedling greenhouse has allowed us to get many of our garden crops started...
Emma Nelson
Emma came to the farm in mid April as a WWOOFer. This means that she was coming to live on the farm for a few weeks as a willing worker in order to experience farm life and downeast Maine for a short time. After a few weeks she decided she'd rather stay the season. She is now our sole apprentice and we are fortunate to have her contributing to the farmscape this year with her hands and heart. When she's not in the barn or gardens, you can find her capturing the special light of fog with her camera, knitting...
Update from the Gardens
We were joined by a mother daughter WWOOFer team (Diane and Clare) this past week and tackled the sweet potato harvest. We had an incredible haul (some potatoes weighed out over 3 pounds!) this year and they are currently curing in the seedling greenhouse. We keep them at around 70-85 degrees for about a week in order to "cure" the skins and make them storable for the winter. In addition, we pulled our flint corn out of the field and the ears are drying on the wagon by the raspberry patch. Garden clean up continues as we prepare for colder weather. ...