Blue Fox Farm

What’s at market? Week of April 27th

Okay, so we’ve finally had some sunny warm days to make things grow a bit. First, I’d like to mention to all of our great CSA members a little about our weird spring…… When we decided to try our new hybrid CSA program I knew one of the challenges of the new style of program would be to make sure that there was food available for the CSA members at the beginning of the market day as well as the end of the day so folks didn’t feel pressured to get there as the bell rang to get the best stuff. So we’ve planned for this by planting another acre or so of extra veggies. This way we can have piles of food throughout the market.

Well this has been an unusually cold and rainy spring for all of us. Things are planted out in the field (a little over 3 acres already) yet many things have just been sitting there. It’s been too cold. So I wanted to apologize in advance and in retrospect to any of our CSA members who have come later in the past couple of weeks to find our stand nearly bare. We’re going to have obscene amounts of food very soon. Even tomorrow we’ll have more food than the last couple of weeks.

The other side to the supply problem is not really a problem. It’s actually amazing…. we’ve been bringing all the food we have, and even on rainy, windy, or snowy market days, the people are coming for their food. This tells me that people want our food as a source of nourishment. It’s not just a fad adhered to on perfect sunny days. “Oh let’s go to market, it’s nice out.” No. I imagine it’s more like, “I like to eat real food, let’s go to market.” What I’m saying here- another reason we keep running out of food at market is because people are eating it all. What a simple, yet beautiful concept.

So here’s what we have at market this week:

• Salad Mix (I’m bringing a lot more this week)
• Spinach
• Arugula
• Bok Choy
• Broccoli Raab (Our favorite spring green)
• Cauliflower (the last of the over wintered)
• Green Garlic
• Red Russian Kale
• Leeks
• Radishes
• Salad Turnips
• Giant Red Mustard

The field grown spinach is coming soon, head lettuce is working up it’s courage to grow fast, and our new rounds of kale, chard, and collards are cruising towards edibility. Oh, and we’re planting our tomatoes in the hoophouse on Wednesday. We’ll see if we can get some July 4th tomatoes again like last year.

Update: Oh and one more thing- in my continuing experiences with multimedia here’s a video I took with my phone while making growing beds the other day. Nuthin’ too fancy but hey…….

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