Lettuce Rejoice!
April 6, 2023
Spring Share Week 1!
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 3rd 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 6th, and in Bayfield on Friday April 7th.
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?
I hope you will embrace spinach and kale with gusto. This is their perfect moment, the time of year where they are abundant and sweet. The kale is especially special right now, as it is putting out "raab", tender flowers stalks that are like tiny broccoli's. Try them!
You can eat these lovely greens morning, noon, and night. Start with a smoothie, or a crustless quiche, move onto a soup, or a spinach dip, and finish up with something decadent like saag paneer, or spanakopita.
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/18417/spanakopita-greek-spinach-pie/
https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/aarti-sequeira/saag-paneer1-1927603
What's your favorite recipe for adundant spring greens?
We also have lots of potatoes, beets, and sweet potatoes, microgreens, and overwintered spring onions. What a treat!
Coming up soon (in a week or two): lettuce mix (available only for greens share this week), arugula, and radishes
Coming up a little later: bok choi, mini romaine heads, turnips and cilantro
Planted but growing oh-so-slowly: beets, carrots, raab, and broccolini
On the Farm
I'm spending happy days in the greenhouses starting thousands of seeds and enjoying the sunshine.
A few years ago Brian built me a really great "germination chamber". It's essentially an insulated box with shelving that I heat with a crockpot on a thermastat. The chamber gives the perfect heat and humidity for germinating seedlings and the results are rather astonishing: nearly perfect germination on nearly every tray.
Gotta love simple scale-appropriate tech.
Brian has become poultry obsessed this winter and is madly trying to finish up a number of building projects to house his future fowl. Last week he finished a rustic palace for his tiny quail. It's of great interest to our many farm cats, but luckily he built it with them in mind and thus far they haven't found a weakness to exploit.
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We'll I'm off to plant more seeds, I hope you don't get washed away in the rain today!
Happy eating until next time,
Farmer Tamara
