Week 4 CSA Pick-Up

What you'll find in your baskets this week:

• Kohlrabi
• Leaf Lettuce
• Kale
• Turnips
• Green Onions
• Red Beet Jelly

Extras this week:

• Radishes
• Spinach
• Chives

Delivery time and place is the same as the previous two weeks.  All the gardens are going great and you should be seeing beets, broccoli, peas, and carrots in the next 1 to 2 weeks.

We had a baby boy (Jeremiah Roger) on Friday June 22. Mom and baby are home and both are doing great.   

Jeremiah Roger

8lbs 13oz, 21 inches

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Week 4 Pick up

We are going in to have the baby by c-section on Friday, June 22nd.  Josh will still be doing CSA pick up on Tuesday and Thursday.  I'm just not sure when we will be posting the list of veggies for your box...It might be a surprise week. ;-)

Trapped Gopher!

Josh finally trapped that gopher that was eating a few bean plants every night.  He found a vertical tunnel and followed it 2 1/2 feet down to the main tunnel.  He then sat two traps, one facing each direction in the main tunnel.  The next night when he came home from work to check them, he had caught the gopher!

We are very pleased to catch the gopher.  We had one last summer that dug up our lawn and ate some celery, all my parsley, and two echinacea before we caught it.  They can be very destructive!

Week 3 Pick up

What you'll find in your baskets this week:

• Spinach
• Leaf Lettuce
• Romaine Lettuce
• Radishes
• Green Onions

Extras this week:

• Kale
• Chives
• Oregano
• Cilantro
• Kohlrabi
• Rhubarb

How the Gardens Grow...

Radishes

 We had some help again this weekend.  Josh's brother, Jared, came out to help in the gardens while his fiance, Stacie, helped me in the house getting ready for our new baby.

We took the row covers off the broccoli and cauliflower to weed them.

Broccoli

Broccoli

Cauliflower

 We got the rest of weeding and mulching done this weekend.  The gardens look great after they got all weeded and mulched.  Josh and Jared also worked on mowing and weed whipping around the gardens.  The yard looks really nice!

Paddock Garden (Potatoes, Popcorn, Carrots, Turnips, Kohlrabi, Kale)

Pasture Garden

Peas are blooming

Soup Beans and Vines

Soup Beans, Peas....etc.

 We have a gopher eating some of the soup bean plants in the pasture garden.  Josh is trying to trap it... unsuccessful so far.

Sweet corn...Crazy how much it's grown in one week!

Potato Garden

Chicken for Sale

I have 2 chicken left from this batch to sell.  If anyone would like to buy them please let me know and I can bring them next Tuesday.  They are $9 each.  Please let me know if you would like to order some from the next batch...to be butchered on July 7th.  Thanks!
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Week 2 CSA Pick-up

This week you'll find the following in  your CSA baskets:

• Radishes
• Kale
• Leaf Lettuce
• Romaine Lettuce
• Spinach
• Soup Beans

Extras...Limited amounts of the following.  Half shares can choose 1 item.  Full shares can choose 2 items.

• Rhubarb
• Chives
• Cilantro
• Oregano

How the Gardens Grow:

The gardens are growing great and so are the weeds.  This week's projects include weeding and mulching all of the gardens.  We've already gotten some of the gardens mulched, but still have more to do.

Josh picking last week's lettuce.  John excited he found a worm.

House Garden with herbs in the wood boxes and the lettuce, spinach, radishes, and bok choy under the row covers.

Paddock Garden

The following are close-ups of what's in the Paddock Garden.

Potatoes

Popcorn

Carrots

Onions

Kohlrabi

Turnips

Kale

Rhubarb and Zucchini Patch

Zucchini

Rhubarb

Pasture

Pasture Garden

The following are pictures of some of the veggies in the pasture garden

Celery

Beet rows

Beets

Broccoli under the row cover

Tomato Hoops

Tomato

Cauliflower

Cabbage rows

Cabbage

Green Beans

Pea rows

Peas.  One has a bud!

Soup Bean rows

Soup Beans

Vines (Pumpkins, Cucumbers, Squash, Gourds)

Pumpkins

New Asparagus Patch

 We just planted these new little asparagus plants.  We hope to harvest 1/3 of it next year.  After 3 years it should be establish and we should get a full harvest from these plants.

Sweet corn rows

Sweet corn

Strawberry bed

Strawberry plants blooming

 The strawberry plants are still blooming.  It looks like we'll just have a smaller harvest instead of no harvest from the frost.  We're happy we didn't loose them all!

Potato Garden

 We tilled and then weeded and hilled the potato garden this weekend.

Chickens:
After butchering chickens, we moved the younger chickens out to the pasture pens.  Here's the process:

Chicks are still in the coop waiting to be caught

Josh and Jake putting the caught chicks into the trailer.

Chicks waiting to be brought out to the grass

Placing the chicks in their new pens

We pulled some grass throughout the passed few weeks and gave it to these chicks in the coop.  As soon as the chicks got onto the grass they new what to do with it...Eat it!  It took the last batch about a week to figure out how to eat the grass.  We plan to do this again next year.