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.