Hello friends! We are harvesting some really delicious crops right now and hope you are enjoying them!! Some of the best things the season has to offer are being packed into shares this week, sweet corn from Goranson's Farm, fresh onions from Ironwood Farm, cabbage and purple basil from New Beat Farm, just to name a few. The first of the peaches from Locust Grove Orchard, organic blueberries from Burke Hill Farm and cantalope from Community Harvest were packed into the fruit shares. Look for more next week!
5 lb. Boxes of Frozen Blueberries, certified organic from Burke Hill Farm are available for $24.00 a box, email your orders to farmers@daybreakgrowersalliance by 3pm Wednesday, August 21 for delivery next week.
Update from Wild Miller Farm
It's really been a beautiful summer for us and the days have all been a blur of planting, weeding, harvesting, washing, and delivering produce. Lots of field work, and taking the kids (and the parents) swimming most afternoons. Even when we would prefer to keep working it's often a good chance to slow down for a few minutes and remember all the little things that are right and good in the world when you get to watch the pure joy of a six year old learning how to swim underwater. Or when we are picking tomatoes and realize that we haven't seen or heard from the 3 year old in a while, only to find him tucked in under the cherry tomato plants and happily eating all of the ripe fruit within reach. In between doing all of those things we have managed to get a few of our bigger picture projects taken care of this summer including, weeding and spreading woodchip mulch around all 275 of our high bush blueberry plants that are growing in anticipation of a 'pick your own' setup in the future as well as preparing more ground to expand the blueberry planting next year. We finished building our new year-round, fully insulated farm stand. Put up a more official sign and are filling the stand with beautiful produce everyday.
Also, like many other growers involved with the Daybreak Growers Alliance, we tend livestock in a way that benefits the wholistic health of our farm. This includes growing and harvesting hay to feed these animals and this year we have finally been able to put the energy into some of our old worn out hay fields to clean up the edges, till them up and smooth them back out again for a much needed, re-seeding. This will help to improve the health and productivity of these fields in the future and allow us to follow through on our plans to be keeping cattle again.
For now though we will keep picking, fueled by lots of egg and tomato sandwiches and getting ready for the seasons to come. The next one for us being winter greens harvest in the high tunnels. The young spinach and kale plants that will be growing through the cold and dark time of year are already started. We love this work, and encourage anyone passing through our neighborhood in Palermo to stop by and visit us to say hi, visit the farm store for some fresh beautiful food and pick up a book from our new take a book leave a book free library. You can now find us on Instagram @wildmillerfarm or see more pictures from the farm at www.wildmillerfarm.com
