Blog Archive – May 2010

CSA Regular Season Begins Tuesday, June 1

By Jana McNally 6:52PMBlog: Community
Tags: CSA, shares, harvest box,

The first day for picking up harvest boxes is Tuesday, June 1st from 5-8 pm. There will be someone available to assist at all pickup spots on the first day.

Our weather this spring has been fairly advantageous. It looked quite dry about a month ago, but as we all know the rains have been coming fast and furious of late. Ivor was concerned about the Derby weekend deluge that was predicted (7-8 inches of rain) but found the 4-5 inches of rain over the 2 days was manageble for the farm. Weeks of cool weather made the work more pleasant for the farmers and kept the cool weather crops such as lettuces, radishes, and kales happy. Now suddenly summer weather has arrived! Last summer was a cool one with only one week in June when temperatures reached the upper 90's. It is always an adventure to see what the weather holds in store for us. Thank you for joining us in this adventure with your food choices and CSA membership.

We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday. If you have questions feel free to reply to this email or call Jana at 502-457-5049.

Jana, Ivor, Noah and Eliah

and farmers Seamus, Diana, Marlena and apprentices Mikey, Carly, Amara and Halley

Field Day Family Farm

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Spring Notes from the Farm

By Jana McNally 8:22AMBlog: Community
Tags: asparagus, spring, farm,

As we all know it has been a very wet and fairly cool month. Back in the dry months of March and April, Ivor was already worrying about the lack of rain and had already begun to use the irrigation system at the farm. Now it seems hard to remember what dry felt like. Thankfully, we haven't had too much rain for the farm to handle, but the strawberries would definitely benefit from some sunshine. Cooler weather, however, is good for the chard, lettuces, cilantro, and salad mix thus the benefit of having multiple crops. Cooler weather is also easier on the farmers!

Thank you for your membership,

Jana and Ivor

NOTE: we are calling the asparagus you will be receiving in your boxes this spring "conventional" as it is from a patch we still rent at our old farm location in Indiana. The asparagus patch is surrounded by Roundup Ready field corn and though the asparagus has never been sprayed directly we don't feel it meets the standards of "no herbicides/pesticides" that the rest of our vegetables do at our farm in Louisville.

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