It is April 1st, and this day has been no joke—sunny and stunning! We have a few crew members joining us this week, and they’ve had a very full day of harvesting flowering overwintered greens, shuffling trays of seedlings in the greenhouses and starting to get their bearings. Mark is gearing up for some serious tractor time tonight. Every Spring, our work grows in complexity, seemingly overnight. Though we’re still working with plenty of overwintered crops, it sure feels nice to have some greens to work with in our kitchens again. And from the looks of things in the propagation house, there’s a whole lot more where that came from. So, with that in mind, I figured I’d reprise and revise some of my most helpful unsolicited advice on the topic of leafy greens.

The hens are laying, seeds are sprouting and things are flowering out—right on cue for us to kick off Spring Share.

“Winter is not the death of the life cycle, but its crucible.”
— Katherine May

This week will mark the end of our 2024 Winter CSA, and Spring Share will pick right up next week on March 26th & 27th. Winter is a season of dormancy, but we'll have all of you Winter CSA members to thank for all of the planting, mulching and trellising hours that your membership makes possible when we're all eating crisp lettuces and juicy tomatoes in a few short months. Standing over our trays of tiny seedlings in the greenhouse tonight, I felt a familiar twinge of hope for the seasons at hand. This Winter fed us, but it was rougher than most. Two days of bitter cold in January, days that a lot of people have already forgotten about by now, cost us dearly this Winter (and likely in Early Spring too). There has been a great deal of heartache (and headache) in our house over the past nine weeks, but you want to know what else there was? An abundance of kind words, notes, warm little asides at the front counter and an overwhelming sense of care for me, for our crew and what we do here, coming straight from all of our customers and CSA members. I’m beyond grateful.

Have a Great Week,
Katie