Lettuce Rejoice!
April 7, 2022
Spring Share Week 1!
Important Details and Dates:
I’m revamping the newsletter format to make sure that you can see the most important details at a quick glance. Read on for updates from the farm.
It’s Week 1 of the Spring Farm Share!
You are getting this email to let you know it’s time to customize your share, you will have until 9:00 p.m. on Monday April 4th to do so.
Here’s a how to file:
https://harvie.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/1260802865550-Customizing-Your-Box-
If you run into any issues, please email support@harvie.zendesk.com, you can also reach out to me at firmlyrootedfarm@gmail.com
Your first shares will be available for pick up on-farm, or in Goderich, Clinton and Blyth on Thursday April 7th, and in Bayfield on Friday April 8th.
I strongly recommend making a calendar reminder
If you run into issues at your first pick-up, please reach out to me at 519 441 1556.
Harvie University
Harvie has excellent help files on all sorts of topics, they call their help file database ‘Harvie University’, you can find it here:
https://harvie.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/categories/115000048773-Harvie-University-Members
What’s in the Box?
As promised the spring share is bursting with tender, vibrant greens. Our spinach, lettuce mix, and baby kale are gorgeous and our microgreens are so delicate and lovely. I don’t have as much diversity of offerings as I’d like. I don’t know about where you are, but it’s been pretty gray, and distressingly snowy over here. Rest assured more good things are coming, for now we feast on greens and few extras!
On the Farm
We welcome our first staff members on Monday. Michelle, our greenhouse Manager, is coming back for her third year on the farm, and I’m not quite sure when we would do without her. Gwen will also be joining us. She is new to our farm, but ran her own for 15 years, and we can’t wait to welcome and learn from her.
The seedling greenhouse is bursting with baby plants including our first peppers and tomatoes. It’ll soon be time to graft the tomatoes, a task that fills me with dread because it involves literally cutting the plants in half and then trying to piece them back together like little Frankenstein’s. If the improvements in yield and disease resistance weren’t so clear, I wouldn’t be able to bring myself to do it.
Jack has figured out the correlation between work and renumeration and now follows me around the farm asking to help, then asking how much money I’ll pay him. It’s a proud moment and he’s big enough now to meaningfully contribute. He particularly enjoys using the flat filler.
As I write this a snotty-faced, grumpy baby is rather insistently pulling at my legs, so I'm going to wrap it up and say: WELCOME BACK! Happy spring (it's here right?).
Happy eating until next time,
Farmer Tamara
