Farm News: Miller Biodiversity Farm 6.12

June 2012

Hello Friends!

Greetings from Miller’s Biodiversity Farm. We have been blessed here on the farm with good rains which has made the grass grow fast and green. This is something to be thankful for because it
provides lush grass and according to Weston A. Price gives high x factor and nutrient dense milk and
meats. We also try to have plenty of herbs in our pastures which the cows eat and the benefits are passed into the milk and meats. If you are into freezing butter, now is the time to stock up!

We as a family at Miller’s Biodiversity Farm enjoy raising animals on pasture and then providing farm fresh, nutrient dense foods to our highly appreciated consumers. Our children also enjoy listening to the variety of birds that make our farm their home.

We would like to thank you for your continued support. By sending your orders and payments, you are supporting a small family farm and not the giant corporations. We are very appreciative of this support!

Now for customer service---how can we serve you better? How can we help you? Please let us know if you have any suggestions or comments so that we can serve you better in the future.

From now until August 31, 2012, we would like to offer a reward to customers that recommend our farm and products to a friend. If the friend buys products from our farm, you will receive $15.00 off of your next order. Your friend must write or mention your name as a reference on their order!

Thank you again for being our customer and if you have any questions, feel free to call 717-806-0392 and leave a message.

Good Luck and Be Healthy,

Aaron and Rebecca Miller and family

P.S If anyone is interested in starting a buying club, please let us know and we will be glad to help! Also, if any customer has an event or an event in the neighborhood and would like farm fresh foods at the event – please let us know.

Thank you.

FARM NEWS 11.14

Hi Folks,

Well the snow has finally melted (pictured is the farm during the week that we missed distribution) and we've managed to go back out in the field to dig roots and chop greens.  The garlic is planted, the cover crops are in, the compost is spread, the crew is off for the winter.    I've been to the USDA in Torrington to get a grant started for a tomato greenhouse.  There's plenty to do but more time to do it.  And so begins the off season...Crop planning, machine work, greenhouse building, milking the cow, tending the chickens, and best of all, sledding with the kids!

Here's the final share:

Butternut

potatoes

beets

onions

kale

collards

parsnips

 

We hope you've enjoyed your share this season, thanks for participating in Chubby Bunny Farm CSA!

Dan and Tracy

FARM NEWS NOV. 6

Hi Folks,

Wow what a week -  snow, no electricity, it really took us by surprise!  Usually we don't expect snow until late December.  We actually had lots of fun with the predicament; candles at night with the kids, playing in the snow.. However the foot of packed snow on the crops made them unharvestable, so thanks for baring with us for a week of unbounty!  We've decided to extend the season by one week to make up for week 21's absence.  Now that the snow has melted and we can actually enter the fields with the tractors, we still have food available for distribution as long as the ground is not frozen. 

 

Unfortunately, many of our greens have been mashed down to the ground by the heavy snow, and so are unharvestable. (Pictured)  (Mustard, Braising Mix, Turnip Greens...)  Fortunately the Kale survived the weather!
Here's harvest # 21:
Kale
Potatoes
Beets
Onions
Carrots
Rutabega
Parsnips
Winter Squash
Greens???
Enjoy!!
Dan and Tracy

FARM NEWS 10.23

Hurray! Twenty weeks of vegetables!

Our work at the farm continues: spreading compost, seeding cover crops, prepping ground for the garlic planting, harvesting for CSA distributions.  The farm is beautiful right now with the fall colors all around, the rye sprouts turning the fields green, the slowed pace of the work.  Tracy and I are happy and relieved that three of our crew will be coming back for the 2012 season (Kasey, Tonya, and Dakota.)  What a blessing to know we have such an excellent crew lined up for another season!
  
Despite a relative abundance, we're now feeling the pinch from the brutal rainy weather of the summer's end.  Cabbages, carrots, daikon,  spinach, rutabegas,  all small and slow to grow in wet ground.  Thankfully, we ought to have plenty of food to get us to the middle of November, just not the overabundance we had last year.  Such is the reality of the real growing season in New England!
 
Now that our farmer's market in Norfolk is finished for the season, our family celebrated by taking a hike up the mountain overlooking the farm.  With no trail to follow, we bushwacked our way up the ridgeline, Baxter on my shoulders, Bea, Tracy, and Sedge leading the way.  Forty minutes into the hike and we were at the top, with a beautiful view of the farm and surrounding mountains. (Pictured).  

We are so blessed to live amongst such beauty, and thankful for the time, finally, to "recreate."
Here's approximate harvest #20:
"new" radishes
baby chard/spinach mix
onions
beets
carrots
potatoes
leeks
winter squash
parsnips
Kale/ Collards
turnip greens
parsley
Enjoy!
Your farmer,
Dan

FARM NEWS 10.17

Hi Folks,

This week was fun; harvesting, spreading rye seed for cover crops, chisel plowing.  And what great news that Dakota, Kasey and Tonya will all be coming  back for 2012!  And Dakota's friend, Mira, has signed on too.  So we have four experienced apprentices coming to work with us, and Tracy, Beatrice, Baxter and I are so happy to have them all back! (+ Mira).  So, based on our equipment and labor,  we've decided to increase the Chubby Bunny CSA to 300 full shares from 270.  We're confident that even given the extremes in weather, we should be able to produce enough for everyone...Also the increase should help our family pay down our farm equipment debt and start realizing a year to year savings for our retirement.  Retirement for a farmer?  Yes, this is the potential for a CSA farm.  There is no 401K.  There are no savings. We are living year to year, season by season. We are hoping to turn this corner soon when we can stop investing so much and start realizing financial security. According to our friends the Denisons of Denison Farm CSA (farmers of 30 years) say we are just about on track since we've been in business 11 years. Some members might be shocked at our financial realities but we actually feel pretty lucky to be solvent considering the economic climate for many farmers right now. And we have CSA to that for that. So onward we go planning for the next season, as the old joke goes, "What's the farmer's biggest asset? Next Year!"

Here's the harvest:
carrots, potatoes, beets, cabbage, onions, garlic, kale, fennel, radishes. winter squash

FARM NEWS 10.10

Finally the sun is shining! We are so happy to see the sun and have a little taste of Indian summer. It really boosts spirits at the farm. We did have a pretty good frost this past week and the crew was busy covering the tender greens. The frosty mornings create a shift in our harvest routine a bit. Throughout the season - especially in the hot summer months, we are racing to harvest the tender greens - salad mix, chard, arugula, spinach, before the sun gets up and heats them up. Now we have to harvest these items the afternoon before distributions so we aren't trying to cut them in the morning with the frost on them. The greens can hold up in a frost as long as you are careful with them and let them warm up a bit. These sunny warm days are a blessing for fall greens. The more sun and heat they get, the longer into the final weeks they'll be in the share.

This week's pics: Fennel harvest. Beets in the field. This picture tells a lot about the farm right now. You can see that we've plowed in all around this patch of beets that we still have to harvest. We're trying to get as much ground as possible in cover crops ahead of the cold weather...

Here's what we'll be harvesting this week: 

potatoes, onions, peppers, beets, carrots, lettuce, kale, garlic, winter squash

FARM NEWS 10.2

Well, it's only getting wetter at the farm.  Thank goodness the crops are still harvestable, thank goodness our crew's spirits are high, and thank you all for signing on with our farm, rain or shine!

First, about rotting potatoes.  Unfortunately, a  fifth of the potatoes are decaying, and a percentage of those go through the harvest undetected.  Please understand we're trying to catch the bad ones before they get to you but we're not always successful.  The same can be said of the peppers, which are at their peak harvest right now, and don't appreciate sitting on wet ground...

 

News from the field:

Despite the challenging conditions we're presented with at harvest, we did manage to start spreading compost this week, preparing ground to be cover cropped with rye ahead of the coming winter.  Spreading compost with the manure spreader is a spring and fall activity at the farm, the aim of which is to improve the tilth and fertility of our soils.  Our compost is made by mixing horse manure, cow manure, sawdust, and old hay, and letting it cure over time.  Well made, it's both earthworm food and plant food.  We've included a picture of muck spreading this week. 

Here's an approximation of your share:

celeriac

potatoes

carrots

onions

beets

garlic

leeks

winter squash

kale

peppers

hot peppers

Enjoy!

Dan and Tracy

FARM NEWS 9.25

Hi Folks,

This was another wet week, so mostly it was harvesting for distributions and a day of hand weeding greens for fall.  Soon it'll be time to spread compost and seed cover crops for winter, with 2012 in mind...  Thank goodness for such a great crew, harvesting in pounding rains, cheerfully learning the "ins and outs" of farming in the extremes of a new New England climate.  Will the rains only come harder next year?  Will it be a drought?  We wonder and will plant accordingly.  Some on the low, some on the high.  Wouldn't it be great to have an easy year, 1 inch of rain per week, with a dry spell in August?

This week's picture: direct seeded fall turnips coming up next to the leeks.

Here's the approximate share for week 16:

onions

carrots

beets

chard/ salad mix

collards/ broccoli greens

peppers

hot peppers

potatoes

winter squash

garlic

fennel

cabbage (small, thanks to excessive rains)

lemon balm

leeks

Enjoy!

D+T+B+Bax

FARM NEWS 9.18

Hi Folks,

Well, we're at week 15 and the final planting of fall greens like spinach, baby kale, broccoli raab, arugula, salad mix, mustard greens, and baby turnips are all in the ground.  The land was finally dry enough to drive on with the tractor to mow down old crops, chisel plow and rototill to prep ground for planting.   We also found time between the weekly harvests,  to bulk harvest the winter squash (looks like a terrific crop!) and finish the onion harvest. 

We'll attempt this week to start spreading compost and prepping ground for our garlic and winter cover crops.  If the weather turns wet we'll sit in the greenhouse and chop the stems of garlic and divide it into seed for planting and bulbs to give out in the shares.

    

This week's pictures: Baxter and Dan direct seeding kale.

Your approximate share this week:

onions

potatoes

peppers

leeks

salad mix

chard

kale

winter squash

carrots

beets

lemon balm

Enjoy!

Dan and Tracy

   

FARM NEWS 8.29

Greetings all!

Well the good news is that all are well at the farm and there hasn't been too much damage and we are all trying to get back to normal. We are still currently without power but we can't see how that will have too much effect on the CSA shares this week. Of course we won't have refridgeration in the cold room but that shouldn't be too much of an issue as we have had nice cool nights. Anyhow, we are lucky that the sun came out and the flood waters receeded because Sunday was quite a day.

During heavy rains we are often locally flooded especially on the farm road. Dan knew Sunday morning that chances were good that the main road would be flooded as well. He drove off to milk the cow. ( I think most of you know by now that we live about a mile away from the farm, or about 6 miles when our little farm road is flooded.) As he drove he witnessed waters rising and new he only had a limited amount of time to milk and do the chores before the road would be impassable in all directions - north, south, east and west. After milking he noticed that the brook on the southern edge of the farm was flooding the southwestern most corner - tomatoes, eggplants and peppers were all under about 2 feet of water. Even more dire, was the fact our two pigs also live in this area of the farm. Dan went out to them with the tractor and found them up to their chests in water. He cut open their fencing and let them out, leading them to higher ground with fresh food and milk. Without an alternative pen for them and knowing the water on the road was rising with every minute he decided they would be fine on the loose and stick close to the barn.

He got in the truck and headed for home. Alas, it was too late and the road was impassable. What to do? Well he went back to the farm and parked the truck and headed out on foot. He crossed a small bridge on the south of the farm and headed into the woods. Dan was able to bushwack through the woods, crossing a small (thigh high) stream to come out through our neighbor's property. Needless to say they were a little surprised to see Dan in full rain gear emerging from their back pasture.

It sounds like a little bit of a harrowing adventure, doesn't it? Well Dan is just the sort to throw himself in to the moment and do what needs done with a hearty sense of adventure. Later, in dry clothes, he took Beatrice and the pup out exploring.

This morning all was back to work as normal at the farm. The piggies were huddled in the barn. The farm crew all showed up on time ready to go to it. So here we go again for another CSA harvest.... Since I'm not home right now and Dan and I are in scatttered directions I can't give you the exact harvest but it will probably include beets, carrots, potatoes, leeks, onions, kale, peppers, tomatoes...

We hope all of you have weathered the storm without too much damage.

Have a good week!

Tracy

FARM NEWS 8.21

Hello folks!

We're back to the farm from sunny Colorado enjoying the current thunderstorm. Wow, what a rain! It looks like the crew had a great week at the farm in our absence. It sounds like the big happening while we were gone was a raccoon in the chicken coop. Our neighbor Chris took care of it (with his gun) before it did much damage. I guess now that we are buying in our corn the raccoons need to find something else to get into. Which brings us to corn... local members may have seen Dan's mug shot unloading a load of corn from Howden farm in the Lakeville Journal. We know that corn is such a big summer treat for folks that we don't want you to miss out. Sweet corn in real quantity requires so much land that we'd have to double our land base just to accomidate this crop .... Luckily for us Bruce Howden, in near by Sheffield Mass, does such a bang up job of growing sweet corn and he's just a phone call and short drive away. Having to grow so many different crops for the CSA model is pretty tricky and if there are one or two items Dan can cross off his to do list he can focus on all those other crops that need his attention. So we hope you're enjoying all the corn we're buying in! Our NYC CSA also buys in corn from a local grower, and this has eased our growing difficulties immensely!

This week's picture: Bea and Baxter helping to clean up the garlic.

Here's the likely upcoming harvest:

Corn?

Salad Mix

Onions

Garlic

Beets

Carrots

Tomatoes

Peppers

Cucumbers

Zucchini

Kale

Radishes

Potatoes

Enjoy!

T+D

FARM NEWS 8.14

Have you ever wondered how it all comes together? How do we plan what to plant and when, what to harvest next, what field work needs to happen asap? Well, this picture kind of says it all. Dan knows all these things from years of farming but his notebook is his key tool for keeping things straight. The inside front cover has his weekly to do list, including harvests. The front cover has the harvest numbers and contact info for each distribution site. The first 5-6 pages are the seeding schedule followed by daily notes for the past 2-3 years. Not only is Dan an extensive list maker (who will extol the therapeutic virtues of blackening completed items with a sharpie) but also a steadfast note taker. Dan has taken extensive daily notes on farm work, weather, family events etc. While you can see from the picture here we aren't talking about spread sheets or anything that technical but the value of this type of record keeping is enormous. Gosh, it seems like the melons are late... a quick glance will tell that we're a week behind from last year or didn't we give out more spinach last year...no, we've given the same amount - that sort of thing. It is so helpful to be able to look back and compare years or even remind ourselves of the little daily events that occur. So let's see August 15, 2010: Dan's dad's birthday, went to grammy and pop's for brunch, Dan fertilized the brassicas, mowed the potatoes, still milking Patches twice a day, our neighbor mowed our drainage ditches for us.

The notebook is also a critical tool for weeks like this upcoming one. The farm family will be away in Colorado for a family wedding and the crew will be running to show. I have to say they really are our best crew ever and are sure they are 110% capable of taking care of things while we are gone. But it will take Dan sitting down with his notebook tonight making lists and planning for the week ahead. It should be a great experience for them, as each person will have their own area of responsibility.

These apprenti are the best ever, please expect a perfect share!

This week's harvest:

Onions

Salad Mix

Beets

Carrots

Tomatoes

Peppers

Eggplant

Cucumbers

Zucchini

Basil

Leeks

Kale

Cabbage

Enjoy!

Your farmers D+T

FARM NEWS 8.7

Hi folks,

The peak of the season is here, tomatoes, corn, eggplant, peppers?, and the harvesting is getting heavier and heavier. Thank goodness for Chase and Mary who were hiking the AT and stopped in to lend a hand as volunteers. Also thank goodness for the steady pace our apprentices keep. I endeavor to give them the experience and learning they'll need for becoming farmers in the future....

This week: Between harvests, we wind-rowed the onions to dry down in the field, hand weeded the leeks and winter squash, trellised the last round of tomatoes, hoed the beets...The potato crop looks terrific, hope y'all have been enjoying the first round of Yukon Gold, the continued rounds of sweet onions, the surplus of cabbage and the first of the celery!

At home we've been adjusting and training our new border collie, "Sedge." I say we're training the pup but really we're also training the kids to train the dog. It's fun, it's work, it's a bit like it is at the farm...I must admit, though the pup is cute, I'm looking forward to the transition from pup to dog. Companion at the farm? Family friend? The border collie has been bred for brains and work, perfect on the farm!

This week's pic: Basil harvest, 6:30 AM.

This weeks harvest:

Salad Mix

Onions

Garlic

Beets

Carrots

Potatoes

Tomatoes

Cucumbers

Zucchini

Basil

Leeks

Kale

Chard

Enjoy!

Your farmers

Dan and Tracy

FARM NEWS 7.31

Hi folks,

This past week's weather was a welcome break from all that heat and dry. Plenty of rain and lower temps made work a pleasure! We transplanted fennel, zucchini, rutabegas for fall, direct seeded salad mix, and arugula. We hoed and weeded fall carrots, parsnips, cabbages. It was a lot to squeeze in between harvests.

This coming week on the farm, hand weeding leeks and harvesting onions. It looks to be an epic harvest, due to the size and quantity of this particular crop. To harvest them, we first windrow them in the field, let them dry down for a week or so, then bring them into the barn to finish curing.

New in your share this week: Leeks, potatoes, and celery. Soup anyone? All three crops look really good, though a touch weedy and will take some work to clean up ahead of harvesting.

This week's picture: Yes, we still have seedlings for transplanting. Here are beets, fennel, turnips, chard and a few other items that we'll be planting for the fall. As we turn the corner into August we'll stop seeding in trays and finish up our fall seedings by directly seeding in the field fall greens and fall radishes.

Here's your approximate share:

Salad Mix

Carrots

Onions

Leeks

Potatoes

cucumbers

zucchini

tomatoes

eggplant

collards

cabbage

celery

basil

FARM NEWS 7.24

Hi Folks,

What a hot week! We really felt the heat of summer this past week, and are past due for a soaking rain. The crops are coming through pretty well, though our broccoli seems to be taking the heat poorly. The potatoes also could use some moisture to size up, and the greens like collards, kale, chard and arugula look pretty wilty by midday. It's hard as the farmer to see dessicating crops, but equally hard to see drowning crops. If the pain of the dry ever gets to be too much, I gaze into the onion crop, which appears spectacular. It sure seems like this might be a season where we get both extremes! This dryness reminds me of the four week stint we had last summer in late June/ early July. It passed, the rains came gently back, and the crops survived.

The good thing about summer heat is summer crops. Barring any catastrophe, we should start seeing tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants. Also there's no need to visit the sauna or take vitamin d.

This week's pictures: Everybody loves onions! Bea's friends harvested some onions during her birthday party.

Your share this week:

Salad Mix

Carrots

Beets

Onions

Garlic

Cukes

Zukes

Eggplant?

Mint

Basil

Tomatoes?

Chard

Enjoy!

Your farmer Dan

FARM NEWS 7.17

Hi folks,

It was an incredibly physical week at the farm- garlic harvest, handweeding peppers and eggplants, putting hay mulch on the tomatoes, seeding more salad mix, dragging out the irrigation for our tomatoes....It can be incredibly challenging to jump right into field work when the weekly harvest now occupies 75% of our time. Thanks to this year's very able and hardworking crew, the challenge has been fun!

Pictured this week: Carrot harvest.

This week's share:

Salad Mix

Arugula

Carrots

Beets

Cabbage

Onions

Cucumbers

Zucchini

Radishes

Komatsuna

Kale

Enjoy!

Your farmers,

Dan and Tracy

FARM NEWS 7.10

This week's harvest: lettuce, carrots, radishes, zucchini, parsley, basil, chard, turnips, beets, collards.


Today we celebrated our daughter's sixth birthday. We had a wonderful farm birthday party complete with a trailer ride out to the swimming hole and homemade ice cream made from our own milk and sorbet from our own strawberries. We know it is Bea's birthday time at the farm when... humming birds visit our bee balm, our raspberries are ripe, onions are looking good and almost ready to harvest, the garlic is ready to be harvested and cured, green beans are coming along as are the tomatoes. Afternoon thundershowers cool off the hot days. And any day now she should start hearing the cicadas.


Happy Birthday Beatrice! Farm girl extraordinaire!

FARM NEWS 7.3.11

Hi folks,

Hope you've been enjoying all the greens. All the rain sure makes for lots of greens. Hopefully we'll have a dry spell like we did last year at this time for the tomatoes' sake, so we can have lots of blight free maters!

This week on the farm, we'll be transplanting fall broccoli and fennel. Also seeding fall carrots and harvesting the garlic crop. The pace on the farm has shifted to harvesting 70% of the time and field working the rest of the time. Thanks again to our terrific crew, we seem to be keeping up with it all.

New this week in you share: Beets,fresh garlic, and kale. Don't forgo those beet greens, which are especially delicious cooked or topped with butter, which tends to neutralize the oxalic acid content and result in delicious eats. Kale, in an opposite way, has lots of calcium which is freed up with a bit of vinegar added to the cooking process.
Your approximate share this week:
Kale
Beets
Fresh Garlic
Salad Mix
Komatsuna
Radishes
Lemon Balm
Turnips/Kohlrabi
Enjoy!
Dan and Tracy

FARM NEWS 6.26.11

Sunday morning on the farm is often filled with morning chores, perhaps a social visit. This morning was such a one with pancakes and a visit from former apprentice, Cody. He arrived at the house while Dan was at the farm milking. When we (the kids, Cody and I) got to the farm we saw the curious site of Koko, one of our cows, halfway inside the chicken coop.

For a full explanation I need to back up a week or two. Most of our chickens live in an old camper that we have made into a portable chicken coop. We move the coop around to fresh pasture and set up a movable electric fence so the chickens have plenty of pasture to roam around in. The electric fence is mainly to keep predators out, but does also keep the chickens in. For the most part. We have a few that regularly hop the fence. One of these hens has taken up with a guinea hen and you'll see them wandering around the farmyard together. Another one was busy laying eggs in the cow barn. One day I happened to notice that she had actually hatched chicks! Now, as natural as this is, it has never happened for us here at our farm. Usually the hen isn't broody enough or a predator (skunk or possum) comes and eats the eggs before there is a good clutch. We were all quite excited and after a day we realized we should protect the chicks so they wouldn't get eaten by said predators. As luck would have it we have another portable chicken pen that we use for meat birds that was sitting vacant in the pasture. When we had a minute and many hands available we scooped up the chicks (10 in all) and mama hen and brought them to their new home. Mama hen was very content and proud. Unfortunately, this only lasted about a week. Here we were, thinking we had done a good thing, but it just wasn't good enough. Some weasely creature dug a hole under the pen and had quite a dinner. All the chicks were gone. Poor mama hen. When Dan discovered this he let the door open for mama to come out and she hung around quite a while looking for her little ones.

Now, finally I can get to the cow part. Remember, this was a story about Koko? Anyhow, Dan let the hen be and went on to other more pressing matters. Removing the chicken feed was not one of those matters. Now come Sunday morning Dan went out to move fence for the cows before going into milk Patches. Koko meanwhile, not content with all the fresh grass she now has, discovers something new and interesting to explore... the chicken pen. Oh and look a yummy snack! By the time we got out to her she was all the way in the pen which is only about as tall as she is and perhaps twice as wide. Fortunately, as soon as Dan removed the feed, he was able to turn her around and out she went. If any of you know the children's book Helper Cow,well, Koko would be our helper cow. Patches is our sweetie, but Koko is the trouble maker.

Meanwhile.... Dan is out back at the farm cultivating (that's weeding with the tractor and implements) and no doubt preparing for a week of field work and harvesting.
This weeks CSA share:
lettuce mix, radishes, salad turnips, garlic scapes, collard greens, swiss chard, basil, dandelion greens

FARM NEWS 6.21.11

Hi folks,

It's been really great finally starting up distributions for 2011. Thanks again for signing on with us for another vegetable adventure with your farm family Hayhurst! It was great to see many of you back at the farm this week, also good to reconnect with Joel the driver in the first of 22 weeks of deliveries to White Plains and NYC. It was a relief for me to see how able and efficient this year's farm crew is at harvest and packing/washing veg on what would otherwise be complicated and stressful harvest mornings. Our crew has been a veritable dream team; I really feel blessed this year with some great apprentices, hourlies and volunteers. It's a cheerful, smart crew of folks hell bent on becoming farmers. With these folks putting in this kind of effort, I'm motivated to do well by them as a teacher, and as a farmer. Of course, it's our goal to do well by our CSA members as well, as y'all have trusted us to do our best to provide a decent share. Thanks for your commitment!

From the field:

It's been a wet spring. I'm reminded of the wet 2009 summer, only now it's spring. So far no reports of blighted tomatoes. The wetness has hampered efforts to get some crops in on time as plowing has been delayed in some of our wetter fields. Wetness also offers weeds an opportunity to get ahead of the crops. This is because when the field is wet, it's a bad idea to drive the tractor in to cultivate in a timely way. When weeds get bigger than an inch tall, they're ten times harder to kill with a hoe or tractor cultivator. So the weed problem compounds as you miss timely cultivations. Hoeing a crop of leeks on time can take an hour. That same crop hoed a week late can take four hours. A stitch in time saves nine stitches... The good news is that we expect a dryish week. and the crops will get a nice boost from the warm weather.

Here's the approximate share:

Spinach, Lettuce Mix, Romaine Heads, Swiss Chard, Garlic Scapes, Mint, Chinese Cabbage

This weeks pics: Swiss Chard and Romaine Head Lettuce in the field.

Enjoy!

Farmer Dan