Lettuce Rejoice!
June 9, 2022
Blooms for the Bees
Administrative Details
Welcome to the first week of the Summer Farm Share!
You’ll have until 9:00 p.m. on Monday June 6th to customize your share. Not sure how? Follow this how-to: https://harvie.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/1260802865550-Customizing-Your-Box-
If you need to switch your pick-up location, skip, hold or reschedule a delivery you can learn how to do that here: https://harvie.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001542514-How-to-skip-reschedule-or-change-a-delivery-location
Have another question? You can probably find the answer at Harvie University here: https://harvie.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/categories/115000048773-Harvie-University-Members
Need help?
Reach out to Tamara at firmlyrootedfarm@gmail.com
What’s in the box?
It’s still spring for another few weeks and the foods that shine best in the spring are greens. So feast on salads, on wilted spinach or kale, on green smoothies, on pasta dishes bursting with arugula.
Are you already deep into BBQ season? Try grilling your romaine, bok choi and even radishes, while you are at it use butterhead leaves as burger buns.
On the Farm
There is so much food planted! Along with all the green stuff, we’ve managed to get our sweet potatoes, winter squash, zucchini, eggplant and peppers in. The tomatoes are already waist high and so are the first round of cucumbers.
Summer flavors will be upon us soon.
I’ve been revelling in all the flowers on the farm, and so have the bees! I watch them as they visit the columbine, the lupins, the catnip and so many others. We’ve made a point of planting things that give them a loooong season of foraging. In the early spring they can visit the willows, the dogwoods, and the maples, whose flowers are referred to as “insignificant” because they are small and greens, but to the bees this early food source is of great significance. After the shrubs and trees finish flowering, then come the spring bulbs which we’ve planted by the thousands. Next are the small fruits: the apples and pears, yes, but also the Aronia bushes, serviceberries, raspberries, strawberries and others. And so it continues on until deep frost puts an end to things and the bees take to their winter homes.
Everyone wins here: the bees have food, pollinate our crops, we get to eat the crops, and we all get to enjoy the flowers.
That’s all for now folks, happy eating until next time.
Farmer Tamara
